Sentence examples for elderly being from inspiring English sources

Congratulations to Hila Colman (Lives: "Just Desserts," May 3). We see a parallel between the "hurried child" syndrome and the new "hurried elderly". Being busy for its own sake is common to both constructs.

Furthermore, half of the population more or less of every age group (elderly being more so) are WOMEN.

If you leave [drugs] out, it really is going to cause a serious problem of poor elderly being deprived of medical care.

This research found a predominance of the female sex (73.4 %), with a mean age of 71.50 years (SD = 8.00), most elderly being concentrated in the age range between 60 and 69 years (44.4 %).

Rather than the poor and elderly being the cause of the problem, they instantaneously become its cure.

With children and the elderly being the worst-affected, many Indians and expats are already moving out.

The elderly are especially vulnerable.

"The elderly are so polite sometimes".

Compassion for the elderly is important, too.

The elderly weren't treated differently.

The elderly are increasingly surfing the web.