Sentence examples for this very elderly from inspiring English sources

"He was just this very elderly man," Dr. Primack recalled.

Indeed we have analyzed the change in management of this very elderly people (80 years old and more) over the past 14 years in a French medical intensive care unit in a provincial University Hospital.

I debated intervening, but I stood there while this very elderly woman was standing unnecessarily.

Nevertheless, in this very elderly group, more than 76% tolerated doses higher than the starting dose of carvedilol.

Also, the aim was to identify which of several key variables might be independently associated with survival in this very elderly population of patients.

We aimed also, to identify which of several key variables might be independently associated with survival in this very elderly population of patients.

To clarify this association in the very elderly, we conducted the present study to examine this issue in a community-dwelling population of 85 year-olds.

The present study verified this assumption in the very elderly, which is a population especially prone to selective nutritional deficiency, increased inflammatory activity, and arterial wall diseases.

About one fifth of the Italian and Spanish samples were aged 85 or older, whereas this group of the very elderly was smaller in Belgium (13.9%) and the Netherlands (11.3%) (Table  1).

There were other multiple chronic diseases affecting a significantly higher proportion of the very elderly in this study.

11 This study found that the very elderly had no more comorbidities than the control group and that the survival rate of the very elderly was actually higher (although not significantly) than relatively younger patients.