Volunteers from area churches were brought in to help the elderly and disabled.
The two candidates' attempts to help the elderly are even more misguided.
At the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, for example, MBA students mentor teenagers, volunteer at soup kitchens or help the elderly.
"Part of our goal is to help the elderly stay in their homes for longer, help them stay in touch with their families and make their lives easier, " Addessa says.
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These are the workers - most of them low-income women - who help keep the elderly out of nursing homes.
They build and maintain schools, repair streets and help the jobless and the elderly.
Once in office, he invented pension credits, a relatively cheap way of giving much-needed help to the elderly poor.
Republicans want to shrink the size of government and the spending needed to run it, while Democrats want to strengthen the safety net of federal programs that help the poor, the elderly, the disabled and other vulnerable communities.
Nanto City, a centrally located Japanese city with an elderly population that comprises 26% of its total residents, is one of the first municipalities in the world to experiment with using robots to help care for the elderly.
As well as funding the cost of home care where appropriate, he said other help was available for the elderly, including home heating and free bus fares.
Many women have experienced, first-hand, the negative aspects of taking time off from their career to raise children or help with the care of elderly parents.
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The presence of senior doctors at the point of admission could also help reduce numbers by ensuring the elderly were channelled to the best services sooner, the report said.
Then the "help at home" staff for the elderly began a 24-hour strike.
The administration had earlier proposed providing temporary block grants to states to help cover the drug costs for elderly residents, but lawmakers rejected that plan.
The survey asked about a wide range of social services from employment assistance for younger, low-income patients to transportation and food assistance, the kind of help that is often critical to the frail elderly living at home.
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Winter fuel payments should be means-tested to help pay for care of the elderly, a former minister has said.
He says he wanted to move there to help his elderly parents manage the sprawling property.
It is hoped the changes will help elderly patients recover more quickly and, as a result, save money.
In the Senate early in the morning, late at night, Ted Kennedy fought and cut deals for minimum wage increases, health care, education, immigration reform, and help for the poor, the elderly and the sick.
We do a lot to help the community - we play free concerts for charity and the elderly at the homes and take part in Armistice Day.
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Kathy Siu, the district councilor who has been the driving force behind the Pound Lane plan, said it would help ease automotive traffic and make life easier for the elderly.
Raising the price of park passes for the elderly won't make a real dent or help young people enjoy the trees more.
Gordon Brown's plans to provide 400, 000 vulnerable elderly people free help with the likes of washing, eating and bathing in their homes - rather than moving them to residential care - had been due to come into effect on 1 October, subject to the bill being passed.
Another team of volunteers had spent the day looking for the elderly man, after his family appealed for the public's help.
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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.
After decades spent fine-tuning their professional skills, these retirees are looking to dedicate effort to the causes and programs they care about, whether it s mentoring children, caring for the elderly or pitching in to help out after a natural disaster strikes.
As their savings dwindled, the couple relied in part on help from their elderly parents.
Homes for the very elderly that do not have help, medical care facilities that operate as non-profit, etc.
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