0 ill or needing care, especially for long periods and often because of old age:
1 people who are ill for long periods:
The old and the infirm are the most susceptible to this disease.
2 physically or mentally weak, esp. because of old age or illness
The other functional analogue that merits greater attention is the provision of community-based, multi-care facilities for those older people who are more infirm or unwell.
Then, when the elderly parents became widowed, infirm, or impoverished, they moved into the household of one of their children.
They poignantly added that its only alternative is ' the destruction of the radically infirm' (1992 : 57-8).
The centre asked the provinces to take back their prisoners, starting with the ill, infirm and incorrigible.
Admittedly, this image of collapsing generational solidarity was publicly used to denounce poor-relief measures on behalf of the aged and infirm.
An act in 1763 concerning hospitals and orphanages placed the responsibility for the poor, old, and infirm on the parishes.
Then, when the older generation became widowed or infirm, they moved in with their married children.
We distinguish between chronic and catastrophic infirmities based on the severity of an infirm justice's ailments in a given year.