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How to use the word elderly in a Sentence? Page #6

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Many commentators use high-profile car crashes involving elderly drivers as a reason to call for bans or restrictions on older drivers, the decision to hang up your keys is a tough one but should be based on personal advice from your GP and family rather than being based on some arbitrary age. We all age differently and the car is an essential lifeline for many elderly people.

Edmund King

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We're struggling a little bit by the perception that flu is not really a deadly disease, which of course we know it is, perhaps the healthy adults are at a fairly small risk of getting a very very severe flu infection, but if they do get infected, they're potentially still infecting others. And how many people in that age group have young kids or have elderly parents ?

Richard Webby

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I would say dying from complications of rib fractures is twice that in the elderly population compared to the younger population, it's not necessarily the broken rib that causes these patients to do poorly. It's the underlying pulmonary mechanics that is the problem.

Adam Shiroff

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A patient like the justice, having three rib fractures, will likely be observed in the ICU, so that's a profound difference and underscores the impact of being elderly.

Adam Shiroff

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We ask elderly people in Japan to teach children in elementary school. By using this robot, elderly people can participate in the classroom from their homes, so distance learning is another project we are working on now.

Fumihide Tanaka

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In recent weeks an elderly homeless woman was allegedly beaten to death by a twice-deported illegal alien that was not supposed to be in this country, in the sanctuary city of Philadelphia, I went to school in Philadelphia, local officials released a previously deported illegal alien back onto the streets after his release. The illegal alien raped a very young child. I won't even tell you how old this child was.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The elderly and those with pre-existent conditions, such as asthma and heart failure, are likely to face declining health due to exacerbation of their conditions due to weather, heat exhaustion and stroke, dehydration, migraines, loss of sleep and mood alteration can all occur due to dangerous heat. Historical data shows that more people are likely to be involved in vehicle crashes due to heat-related impacts, such as decreased ability to concentrate, the poor quality of sleep they get and impaired mood, etc.

Michael Mann

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Pregnant women, the elderly and persons with suppressed immune systems due to cancer treatment, diabetes, liver and kidney disease are just a few examples of conditions that increase the risk for foodborne illness, young children are also vulnerable to developing serious illness from foodborne disease.

Catherine Donnelly

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We didn't have any food, or drink or anything, not even water, i treated him on a bus after he was injured in an air strike, which is unacceptable. I call on the United Nations and the Red Cross to open a way for us to get out of the situation we're in. Our kids, women and elderly are stuck ...

Aly Omar

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

You hear your mother is OK, but my mother is an elderly woman, and you don’t know how they take these things, unfortunately, at the time, she was home alone. I had to rush here and see what was going on.

Natalie Smith

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Many of these elderly people either live alone or are being taken care of by neighbors, they are not even relatives.

Angel Munoz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

My life has been rather poor for the past year or so, and I am very happy to end it, all the publicity that this has been receiving can only, I think, help the cause of euthanasia for the elderly, which I want.

David Goodall

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

When I see people leaving food outside their home, it brings a tear to my eye. The level of generosity people have in this community, it just replenishes your heart in a way, the working poor is everyone – youth to teens to college to elderly on tight budgets – it’s just really nice to see [the participation.].

Candace Owen

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

On one of the lunchtimes, an elderly passenger vomited with people all around him.

William Noney

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Opioids are now available in millions of American homes, which means that everyday individuals vulnerable to addiction and overdose - such as children, teens, the elderly, and those with a history of substance abuse - are routinely exposed to medications that are highly addictive and potentially deadly, simply having more of the medications around increases the risk for accidental poisonings in the young and overdose in teens and adults.

Julie Gaither

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It’s just like all the telephone scams that happen with the elderly and so forth, it’s tough.

Jim Doyle

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In the past it was elderly ladies who did the dancing.

Choi Wan-hee

Found on CNN
7 years ago

As we see from history, there are regular pandemics in our world and we are due for one, many point to the flu as most likely culprit. It's especially hard on the young and elderly and those with chronic illness.

Tina Cheng

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It is disgusting to me, you know, hearing what happened to this elderly man, he did not deserve that so, I think anything they give him, he is going to get what he deserves.

Buck Sleight

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

She knew that the elderly lacked the ability to take measures to guarantee the child’s safety.

The Tuva Investigative Committee

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Research shows that in addition to severe chest infections, flu may also lead to heart attacks and strokes, most severe influenza complications occur in the elderly and people who suffer from long-term conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and asthma.

Eszter Vamos

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

When we have children, we go to parenting classes, we ca n’t assume that people will know how to take care of their elderly relatives.

Pamela Teaster

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I mean, the truth is, he is as unlikely a candidate, really, as Donald Trump, [Sanders] is without charm. He is elderly. He is running on an economic program that is eighty years old and has proven not to work, and yet he is drawing crowds of people who know for a certainty that he is not going to win—and they’re coming out anyway.

Tucker Carlson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We are seeking to mobilize the power of women and the elderly as much as possible, but at the same time we recognize that the acceptance of foreigners is a major issue.

Yoshihide Suga

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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