1.  A study by Harriet and Sarah Harman, for example, documents appalling and degrading treatment of elderly people in private homes.

2.  A warm home is essential to the wellbeing of elderly people.

3.  Accidents in the home are extremely common, and elderly people are most at risk.

4.  And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights.

5.  Attitudes to ageing and to elderly people in a multiracial society Ageism permeates society at both ends of the life-cycle.

6.  Bungalows are suitable for many elderly people.

7.  Cooking for one person can be a dreary business, as many elderly people find.

8.  Crimes against elderly people are still uncommon.