Even the Oxford dictionary defines an old wife's fable, story or tale as "a foolish story, such as is told by garrulous old women".
Thus, in my study I define a person older than 12 years old as an adult.
There is no hard and fast way to define a recession; the old rule of thumb — two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth — no longer applies.
The improbable end to a hunt that many people had long assumed had turned cold riveted his neighbors in Santa Monica, but even more so the people back in his old haunts in South Boston, where Whitey had been a legendary mobster — a hero to some, but loathed by many — who had helped define a Boston of old.
Marriage is between a man and woman!" Howard's group has barnstormed the country, holding rallies to support the contraception-subverting Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision, fighting for state laws to define a six-week old fetus as a legal "person," and advancing other goofy right-wing causes.
Marriage is between a man and woman!" Howard's group has barnstormed the country, holding rallies to support the contraception-subverting Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision, fighting for state laws to define a six-week old fetus as a legal "person," and other goofy right-wing causes.
It matters not that I am defined as an older woman and a grandmother of 20 grandchildren.
Care-giving was defined as an older person assisting an adult (18 49) or child (<18 years) with activities of daily living.
For our analyses, the dependent variable was defined as an older adult who, in the 90 days prior to the follow-up assessment, had either a hospital stay or ED visit.
We define a healthy diet for older adults as a well-balanced diet, and promote their intake of a variety of foods using a table of 10 food groups that correspond to the 10 main food groups of the Japanese diet without rice, namely meat, fish and shellfish, eggs, milk, soybean products, green and yellow vegetables, potatoes, fruits, seaweed, and fats and oils.
