noun
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An elderly person
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(the elderly) older people as a whole
adjective
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Old; having lived for relatively many years.
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Of an object, being old-fashioned or frail due to aging.
Examples of elderly in a Sentence
The elderly woman stood in her doorway and waved.
It was an elderly woman.
Darian waved an elderly woman over.
The elderly photographer was as bad as Fred.
As I passed by the volunteer resident keeper's site, I saw an elderly couple in lounge chairs by a cold fire pit.
The elderly lady was using her handkerchief too.
The clients are mostly elderly with sight or mobility problems.
Young children, elderly people, pregnant women and people who are ill should avoid unpasteurised milk.
Children, listen to the bitter rants of an elderly man.
In a preliminary trial, chlorophyll supplementation eased chronic constipation in elderly people.
I noticed all women, from babies to elderly wore earrings, very much like in Peru.
Tho now very elderly, some of them are still alive.
Demonstration that the treating isolated systolic hypertension in the elderly reduces stroke risk.
King's Head Theater Spring 2003 An elderly Fijian matriarch awakens in the small hours in her home in a New Zealand suburb.
However small acoustic neuromas, not causing any symptoms, can be found in up to nearly 3 per cent of elderly people.
Four white males called on an elderly occupant with a story that they had run over a dog.
Three elderly women, a middle-aged couple and an eight-year old boy were walking in the cart's wake.
There are lace curtains and china ornaments and an elderly couple very frightened.
For example, elderly people are particularly susceptible to the side effects of opioid painkillers such as morphine and sleeping tablets such as diazepam.
I was reminded of a young vicar burying an elderly parishioner whom he had never actually met.
It can also, of course, pose a danger particularly to elderly pedestrians.
In domestic plumbing, female plumbers are often preferred by elderly people or lone mothers.
It also infects adults causing pneumonia (which is often fatal in elderly subjects ).
A small percentage of elderly people with lobar pneumonia die very quickly.
I remember a very pleasant elderly gentleman who frequented Victoria Park, who always had a pocketful of sweets for the children.
Care should be exercised in treating infants, elderly patients and those with hepatic impairment (see 4.2 posology for dosage recommendations ).
Risks to relatively powerless people - children, the elderly, the poor - seem to be taken much more seriously.
HipSavers soft hip protectors help to prolong the elderly people's lives!
Talk to elderly relatives who may have memories of the person you are trying to find.
An appeal for memories of Steyning in 1985 resulted in many fascinating reminiscences from elderly residents.
An elderly dame, too, dwells in my neighborhood, invisible to most persons, in whose odorous herb garden I love to stroll sometimes, gathering simples and listening to her fables; for she has a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what fact every one is founded, for the incidents occurred when she was young.
The commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from chest to back than across the shoulders.
When Prince Vasili returned to the drawing room, the princess, his wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about Pierre.
Natasha saw and felt the agitation the two elderly men and her brother were trying to conceal, and was herself excited by it.
An elderly sergeant who had approached the officer while he was giving these explanations had waited in silence for him to finish speaking, but at this point, evidently not liking the officer's remark, interrupted him.
Criminals who swindle elderly people 's savings could be put to work on social services.
Three elderly people in Pittsburgh died on the same day within hours of getting swine flu shots.
I will give my elderly neighbor a visit to assuage her loneliness.
Elderly Patients The dosage recommendations also apply to elderly patients.
An elderly resident of Edinburgh recently reported being bitten by a fox in her garden.
He wears elderly golf slacks; she in a brown, old-lady skirt.
We were shown the bodies of two elderly women, still slouched in their wheelchairs.
The first port of call is an elderly woman, quickly snuffed out in her bed.
His quiet unseen ministry among the sick, the elderly and the dying brought solace and hope to many.
Cash heard of one ambitious property developer who approached an ' elderly spinster ' .
At dinner we noticed an elderly lady sitting alone along the rail of the grand stairway in the main dining room.
Moreover, by the 1960's the excursion steamer fleet was getting elderly.
Many people are prepared to tolerate pain following surgery and some, particularly the elderly, can be remarkably stoical.
A widower gets his elderly housekeeper to perform a striptease in his dead wife's clothes.
The data in the figure is taken from a recent national survey of elderly people.