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Перевод: infirmity

[существительное]
немощь ; дряхлость ; слабость ; физический недостаток; слабохарактерность ; моральный недостаток

Тезаурус:

1. Faith had been the only sister to visit regularly, for Isabel and Kathleen were afraid, afraid of sickness and infirmity, of germs and ill-health and old age and death.
2. Whilst physical infirmity may make physical care of great significance to the old person and mental infirmity may limit their capacity to give and receive other kinds of care, the efforts we make to relate to the whole person are critical if we are to avoid the stigmatising and depersonalising processes which insult the integrity of the old person.
3. But at the age of 86, immured by infirmity in his house, he wanted to receive the sacrament from his son.
4. It should come as no surprise that, in a society with increasing numbers of very old people, proportionately and absolutely, a substantial proportion of whom have a serious degree of mental infirmity, a significant number will suffer abuse.
5. From these reports, we may identify a general category of the chronically sick : people who replied "yes" when asked if they had a long-standing illness, disability or infirmity which limited their activities in any way.
6. The third situation, much more common, was when a grandparent abandoned living independently, either following widowhood, or through infirmity.
7. To see them annihilate all-comers in the Scottish League only serves to confirm our prejudices about the infirmity of their national football.
8. Age was put alongside grave chronic disease, infirmity or physical incapacity as a qualifier in the 1948 National Assistance Act, and to this day the word continues to be used in legislation as a blanket term to imply dependence.
9. Elderly people may become socially isolated because of the lessening of family ties, bereavement, physical infirmity, restricted mobility and ever-increasing difficulties of transport.
10. This also gives information and current figures for other types of allowances which elderly people may be able to claim, such as those for the registered blind, allowances for the cost of a resident housekeeper (relative or non-relative), and allowances for elderly people who are maintaining a daughter who has to live with them to care for them because of their age or infirmity.
11. But the ordinary events of life - illness, bereavement, infirmity - all heighten our urge to behave in ways which echo our childhood needs.
12. For the elderly who have some form of infirmity, the normal daily routine of keeping the body clean and disposing of its waste products can be exhausting, hazardous, and, in some cases even painful when the back must be bent and the limbs slowly manipulated into the appropriate positions to get in and out of the bath, and down and up from the lavatory seat.