Their departure to fight left only the women, the young, the old and the infirm to carry on Eaton's ambitious agricultural program, which rested on the cooperative farming of large tracts of abandoned and confiscated land.
When people become too old or infirm to live on their own, they typically move or are moved to facilities with other old or infirm individuals, often far from family and friends, depriving them of connections to people who can provide loving support.
Aged and infirm monks — one riding a lion, another hunched in a litter, a third crawling on the ground — approach the saint's prone body.
Both plans would place substantial administrative burdens on the most vulnerable and infirm of Medicare's enrollees.
Women, children, and the infirm remained on board the Mayflower; many had not left the ship for six months.
Helping the Elderly and Infirm: Meals on Wheels is an excellent way to contribute to the care of those who are unable to care for themselves.
The desire to be part of the play is so strong that mortality rates dip in the years immediately preceding and rise in those following the play season: the aged and the infirm tend to hold on for one more chance to be involved.
This is not an easy balance to strike, said one expert on conservatorships for the infirm, Marc B. Hankin, who at one point represented Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys.
Some posters obscured the horrific realities of war, like Ludwig Hohlwein's "Appeal for the War-Disabled" (1918), whose picture of an infirm soldier leaning on a crutch is so stylishly painted it underplays the trauma of being a casualty.
— JOSEPH BERGER PUBLIC HOUSING In New York Public Housing, Complaints Remain After Hurricane Backed up toilets; weeks of no heat, running water, electricity or elevators; pitch-black hallways; elderly and infirm residents marooned on upper floors without food, water or means of egress — all counted among the miseries Hurricane Sandy brought to residents of seafront public housing buildings.
