Now, forty years later, ravaged by the misfortunes of stroke and old age, my father epitomizes what it is to be vulnerable. He contracts multiple infections and diseases. He has recurring urinary tract infections, each of which renders him weaker and pushes him to an ever-lower plateau.
He has some form of dementia on top of the cognitive impairment caused by the stroke. His left hand shakes, so he might have Parkinson's. In the nursing home, he fell prey to van-comycin-resistant enterococcus, which put him in a private room.
Because he cannot swallow, he is fed through a peg-tube. When the tube is washed out, sometimes fluid builds up in his lungs, and he is transferred to the hospital to be treated for congestive heart failure. My father has been physically devastated. He can still be further wounded, however.
Other than when he is transferred to a recliner and wheeled into the hall, he spends all his time in bed, so he gets bed sores. One sore on his ankle refused to heal and exposed bone, necessitating surgery and a subsequent skin graft. Despite this intervention, the wound persists. Conversely, where governments' incentives are at odds with developmental imperatives, policymaking and implementation are vulnerable to economically damaging political opportunism.
As we shall see shortly, it is the egalitarian relational claim that renders egalitarianism vulnerable to the levelling down objection. In fact, elderly migrants appear to be much more vulnerable to poverty than elderly citizens in several countries. The report describes the development of the project and lessons, which may help others seeking to coordinate care for vulnerable elderly people.
The problem is most serious in the poorest areas and among the most vulnerable young people, especially those in care and those excluded from school. This may be better articulated as a value base that positively discriminates on behalf of all persons who are vulnerable. The vulnerable properties of children's acquisition under conditions of impairment should not override recognition of the resistant properties their acquisition capacity also exhibits.
Where established, such bodies are mostly alien to existing local practices, fail to involve local stakeholders or effectively marginalise the most vulnerable stakeholders.
Because of lower compliance rates, the second study may have been more vulnerable to bias in excluding more ill relatives from direct interview. Parasite-induced alterations in both appearance and behaviour concur to render infected gammarids more vulnerable to predation, thus promoting parasite transmission. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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