0 (especially of old people) healthy and strong:
Her grandfather was hale and hearty, walking five miles each day before breakfast.
While ethical concerns are starker when someone is ill or otherwise vulnerable, when discussing patients, we also mean our discussion to apply to the hale and hearty.
If he is hale and hearty, he still has many contributions to make in a field which is not overstaffed, to put it mildly.
He is 91 years old and hale and hearty.
Any welfare policy must consider not only the hale and hearty old people, but the infirm, the incapacitated and the incurable.
It is true that the majority of deaf children are pretty hale and hearty in wind and limb.
Supposing a man died with three children, one son hale and hearty, one son disabled and a daughter.
That is why they are so hale and hearty, and live so long.
Lastly, there are the hale and hearty living at home with their families, or it may be living alone or boarded out.
