looked-after
Nationally, only one cared-for child in 10 gets five As to Cs at GCSE.
Even today, the country's cared-for children still wear institutional uniforms.

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Examples of cared-for

cared-for
Family carers were not recipients of district nursing support in their own right but were dependent upon the cared-for person receiving nursing care.
The mean age of the cared-for older people was 82 years for both groups.
The sample achieved was exhaustive of all the carer cared-for person dyads in the clinical caseloads available to us.
Because, however, these required temporal and physical proximity to the cared-for individual, they had the potential to restrict and damage social networks.
Neither were carers keen to put in writing comments about the cared-for person's deteriorating abilities.
This analysis is a contribution to understanding why caring and being cared-for is burdensome, and why it is more burdensome to some than others.
Two different groups of caring situations were compared, in which the cared-for person had either dementia or physical impairments.
The findings of this study suggest that long-term solutions may be realised through focusing interventions on the distressing behaviours of the cared-for older person.
Enhancing caregivers' sense of achievement and satisfaction by improving the well-being of the cared-for person would also help to maximise the perceived benefits of caregiving.
Under the 2003 regulations, a direct payment may be used to employ close relatives as personal assistants, even those living in the same household as the cared-for person.
The data revealed no significant differences by age, gender, relationship between the family carer and the cared-for person, living arrangement or duration of being a carer.
There was also evidence that the desire to continue the intimate relationship meant that neither the carers nor the cared-for had much liking for routine and its monotony.
An examination of the mean severity of disability scores among ' cared-for ' spouses showed a mean severity of disability score of five regardless of their own social class.
The intent was to interview carers and care-recipients, and to spend several hours observing in the home of the person with dementia as caring and being cared-for was carried out.
Social criticism is more likely to be raised about a badly organised funeral which everybody observes, than about a poorly cared-for patient hidden in the house.
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