But one thing stands out about the places the old and infirm are cared for in Japan.
In "Graying Prisoners" (Op-Ed, Aug. 19), Jamie Fellner makes a compelling case that society is ill served by keeping people in prison decade after decade, until at last they grow old and infirm and must be cared for at mounting taxpayer expense.
The contemporary Neanderthals, who also hunted for meat with sophisticated tools (and even cared for their infirm and buried their dead), had no equivalent cave art.
Following the Second World War, psychiatrists often argued that 'as the proportion of old people in the community steadily increases, so they provide an increasingly high proportion of our mentally infirm population who must be cared for' (Lewis, 1946: 1946.
Through the night, they cared for 148 patients, many of whom were elderly and infirm.
This is more or less the message of the series, in which the villains are penny-pinching bureaucrats and haughty young people, and the heroes are the old and infirm and those who care for them.
Oliver knew life from the other side: a gay man in a straight society; a doctor who cared for people, not patients; a finder of strength among the infirm.
The health care bill hurts all the people most of us agree should be cared for by society: young children, the disabled, the elderly, the infirm.
The Rev. John McGarry, the provincial, told The Associated Press that Father Lindner had recovered and resumed his work at the retirement home, where he helps care for 75 infirm priests.
(Scott) ★ 'THE SAVAGES' (R, 1 53) Tamara Jenkins's beautifully nuanced tragicomedy involves two floundering souls — a middle-aged brother and sister played with force and feeling by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney — who are suddenly left to care for their infirm father (Philip Bosco).
(Dargis) 'THE SAVAGES' (R, 1 53) Tamara Jenkins's beautifully nuanced tragicomedy involves two floundering souls -- a middle-aged brother and sister played with force and feeling by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney -- who are suddenly left to care for their infirm father (Philip Bosco).
