For those without private transport especially the elderly and infirm that means no local amenities.

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He is promoting his own plan to merge social care for the elderly and the infirm, often controlled by local authorities, with the NHS, which he says will save money and improve standards.

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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.

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They cover a wide spectrum of society over many centuries, including the very rich (as patrons), people of more modest means (as smaller donors), and the clients, both resident and non-resident, who were mainly the poor and infirm, including the disabled, the homeless and the elderly.

UNESCO: 2011 UK Memory of the World Register

The sullen French actor and longtime Carax collaborator Denis Lavant, trained as an acrobat, enters a stretch limo, only to emerge as an elderly and infirm woman begging along the Seine.

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