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elderly

adjective as in in old age

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They wanted to tell them to update the map, and to rouse neighbors who could be asleep — including elderly people and those with mobility problems — to tell them to leave.

Fires ambushed the back of the building, and savage winds battered the windows while staffers at the Two Palms Nursing Center in Altadena raced to evacuate roughly four dozen elderly and disabled residents.

Hamas considered them reserve soldiers, and therefore not eligible to be released alongside the women, injured and elderly hostages due to be released in phase one.

From BBC

Qatar has said the hostages to be released during the first phase will include "civilian women, female soldiers, children, the elderly, and sick and wounded civilians".

From BBC

A disease like osteoporosis, for example, is thought of as mostly affecting thin, elderly white women – so doctors don't always think to look outside of that population.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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