By far the most problematic for the health service is the very elderly - those over 85.
Homes for the very elderly that do not have help, medical care facilities that operate as non-profit, etc.
To date they have preferred to concentrate on searching obviously unlikely candidates like young kids and the very elderly.
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Social scientists seeking an answer in Towa discover a community where even the very elderly lead vibrant, active lives.
Their relationship illustrates another truth about Japan's aging society - the people who care for the very elderly are, by and large, old themselves.
America's leaders in caring for the very elderly are the Veterans Health Administration (responsible for about 24m old soldiers) and giant health-care providers like Kaiser Permanente, with nearly 9m people on its books.
External stressors such as joblessness play a role. (National figures on whether suicides increased in the 2008 recession are not in yet, but suicides generally go up in bad economic times.) The very elderly once had the highest suicide rate, but middle-aged men and women, 45 to 54 (see graph, below), have surged recently and surpassed them.
"This will have a particularly adverse impact on vulnerable members of the community, such as the very young, the elderly and those with accessibility issues, " he said.
Republicans also said they wouldn't do anything to help the economy and the middle class unless spending was cut from the very poor and elderly: proposing cuts to food stamps and Medicare.
The illness can be more serious in people with weak immune systems such as the elderly or very young.
Yes, when we got our hands on the device this evening, the very first thing we noticed was the decidedly elderly operating system that ships with it -- so, it's not the freshest Android device on the block.
"I still have children on the mainland and I still have a very elderly mother with dementia for whom I'm the only living relative and that obviously brings certain responsibilities, " he said.
In fact, standing at a polling station on Wednesday, in the freezing December morning, one thing that stood out was the number of elderly and very infirm who turned out to vote - many of them had to be physically helped to the ballot box.
The quality care of the elderly as they approach their death could very good with fewer procedures and a much lower cost.
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Ch Insp Bob Beaton, sub area commander for Stirling, said crimes where the elderly were specifically targeted were "very rare" in the Stirling area.
Again, when I was there, there were attempts being made to get Nelson Mandela, who's now very elderly, who's the one figure on the world stage who commands such enormous support that he might be able to influence Mr. Mugabe, who's an old friend.
Although Czechs are generally disillusioned with politics, they turned out in their droves to choose between the two very different candidates - Mr Zeman, the acerbic former Social Democrat prime minister, and Karel Schwarzenberg, the elderly, aristocratic foreign minister.
Granted, kids and the elderly certainly could be terrorists but the likelihood is very slim.
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"With imminent health cuts, growing numbers of elderly people and increasing levels of elder abuse the very last thing we need is to put vulnerable people, many of whom already think they are a financial or emotional burden to relatives, carers and the state, under pressure to end their lives through a change in the law, " he said.
Unscrupulous advisors prey on the elderly who, living off of a fixed income, are very sensitive to taxes as a meaningful factor over which they have no control.
Today, their elderly relative will be seen and treated within 4 hours at the very most, but typically much quicker.
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The timing might be very different, say, for a truck driver or an elderly person who spends most of his time watching TV.
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Aetna is also very exposed to the difficulties of Medicare, America's federal health-insurance scheme for the elderly.
Mr Sissling claimed that "a very significant increase in demand" for unscheduled care, such as in accident and emergency, particularly amongst the elderly, had made it more difficult for health boards to cut their spending in the first half of the year.
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