Old-age homes

She [Anthousa] became the mother of many orphans for she gathered up the children thrown away riptoumena, fed them, and educated them. Those who died she sent to God, and those who lived she enrolled in the old-age homes [gerokomeia]. ... 

John Edsall s mind and body remained vigorous in years when most humans have surrendered to old age. When the Protein Society met in Boston in the hot summer days of 1997, John, nearing 95, went on foot and subway from his home in Cambridge to the Boston Convention... 

There is a shortage of geriatric specialists, which will take time to be corrected if the 600 drugs under development are to be adequately researched. The rapid growth of sheltered self-care communal housing for active seniors, which guarantee healthcare up to terminal status, illustrates that seniors wish to stay out of nursing homes. Their expectation of the pharmaceutical industry is that it should provide them with medications which allow for an active old age. The industry has heard. 

Varadi and Elwis (V3) found low erythrocyte folates in 10 of 81 hospital patients over the age of 70 years. They were suffering from a variety of disorders which included senile dementia, cerebral thrombosis, and arthritis. None had a megaloblastic anemia. Thirty nine percent of ed people admitted to the hospital in the London area were found to have a low serum folate (H29). Read (R15) in another study found that 40 (78%) of 51 people admitted to an old peoples home were folate deficient with a serum concentration below 6 p,g/liter and in three the concentration was below 3 Xg/liter. In an apparently healthy control group of similar age all had levels... 

Residential (institutional) 2(a) Hospital, home, school or other similar establishment used as living accommodation for, or for the treatment, care or maintenance of, persons suffering from disabilities due to illness or old age or other physical or mental incapacity, or under the age of five years, or place of lawful detention, where such persons sleep on the premises. 

During the Middle Ages, if a person was to set out on a long journey he would entrust his health and safety to an elder tree. If the tree flourished, so would the person. If it withered and died, so would the traveler. These trees were regarded as guardian trees. In Copenhagen, there is an old sailors section where many homes still have a protective elder tree. 

William Henry Perkin, an 18-year-old working in the back room and outdoor shed of his London home, had discovered in black coal tar a beautiful purple dye that would change the world. For the first time in history, color could be democratized. William Henry Perkin and his purple, later known as mauve, rescued the poor and middle classes from their age-old austerity of hues. Natural dyes were expensive and, before Perkin s synthetic mauve, millions of poor people lived their lives in untreated drab and dingy fibers. Even for the middle class, pieces of brilliantly dyed cloth were treasures to be reused from garment to garment and from year to year. It was the schoolboy William Henry Perkin and his successors who would give the world the ample abundance of tints that only the rich had previously enjoyed. 

CDC recommends that states develop a plan to find children who may be exposed to lead and have their blood tested for lead. They make basic recommendations for states to follow. These include testing children at ages 1 and 2. Children who are 3 to 6 years old should be tested if they have never been tested for lead before and they receive services from public assistance programs for the poor such as Medicaid or the Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) if they live in a building or frequently visit a house built before 1950 if they visit a home (house or apartment) built before 1978 that has been recently remodeled or if they have a brother, sister, or playmate who has had lead poisoning. 

The earl of Cork believed that children were best brought up away from home until it was time to begin their education. So, shortly after his birth, Robert was put in the care of a peasant woman until he was old enough to be taken back home and instructed by tutors. At the age of eight he was sent to Eton, where he remained for three years. He then returned home and was again taught by tutors. 

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