It is based on health and leisure rather than infirmity and poverty.
According to this interpretation, the aged ordinarily resided with their adult children only out of necessity, especially in cases of poverty or infirmity.
Those in ' deepest poverty ', such as orphans, widows and those rendered unable to work through infirmity and age, were to receive unconditional support.
Most interesting, however, are the effects of physical infirmity and political ambition.
When her husband became ill and had to go into the infirmary she asked for support on grounds of age and infirmity.
For most, infirmity was a new experience, known for the first time in old age.
The connection between fault and infirmity may be interpreted in a purely mechanistic or unconscious physiological sense, but introduces an inherent social devaluation.
Those unable to work because of illness or infirmity congregated there and there was little distinction between the sane and insane.
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(尤指因年邁而造成的長期的)病弱,體弱生病…
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(尤指因年迈而长期)病弱的,需要照顾的…
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debilidad, dolencia, enfermedad…
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enfermidade…
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zayıflık, dermansızlık, hâlsizlik…
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infirmité…
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slabost, neduživost…
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svagelighed…
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