The phrase "affect elderly" is not correct in standard written English.
It lacks a preposition or article that would clarify the meaning, such as "affect the elderly" or "affect elderly people."
Example: "The new policy may affect the elderly by limiting their access to healthcare services."
Alternatives: "impact older adults" or "influence senior citizens."
The chief of the Justice Department's voting rights section apologized for saying that laws requiring voters to show identification affect elderly whites more than blacks because minority voters "die first".
We recommend that landscape planning practitioners consider both scientific evidence and local conditions that could affect elderly people's preferences, and explore the degree to which design options may fulfill these preferences.
If the bill is passed by the state's Republican governor, Pat McCrory, voters will be required to present government-issued photo IDs at the polls, and early voting will be shortened from 17 days to 10. Voting rights experts say studies reveal that both measures would disproportionately affect elderly and minority voters, and those likely to vote Democrat.
The change would affect elderly, blind or otherwise disabled people in roughly 40,000 households in the state that get Supplemental Security Income, or S.S.I., as well as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, or TANF, according to the impact statement written by the administration and attached to the proposed regulatory change.
As the threshold necessary to qualify for such payments rose — to $33,560 per inpatient discharge in 2003, from $9,700 in 1997 — hospital administrators drastically increased the prices of services most likely to affect elderly patients, even though the actual costs for such patients "were barely rising," the complaint said.
Sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is common cause of cerebrovascular disorders that predominantly affect elderly patients.
This, too, was strange: Kaposi sarcoma typically affected elderly men of Eastern European Jewish and Mediterranean ancestry.
Malignant external otitis (MEO) is an aggressive infection, primarily affecting elderly diabetic patients.
Unlike most of previous studies which look for factors directly affecting elderly people's housing preferences, we take an indirect approach by analyzing the factors affecting elderly people's housing expectation, which in turns affect their housing preferences.
We also use a linear regression model to analyze factors affecting elderly people's satisfaction level on their current housing.
Pleomorphic sarcoma of the skin typically affects elderly patients where it presents as a nodule on the scalp/head and neck region or the extremities.
