84. Old age Flashcards by Mathilde Lacroix

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les personnes âgées

A

the old / old people/ the elderly

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un vieil homme

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an old man

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une vieille dame

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an old lady

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une personne du troisième âge

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a senior citizen / a senior / a third-ager

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vieillir

A

to grow old / to get old

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prendre de l’âge

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to be getting on in years

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les plus de 70 ans

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the over-70s

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un septuagénaire

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a seventy-year-old man

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un octogénaire

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an eighty-year-old man

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un centenaire

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a centenarian

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grisonner

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to go grey

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un homme aux cheveux blancs

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a white-haired man

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avoir les cheveux blancs

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to have white hair

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être chauve

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to be bald

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la calvitie

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baldness

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une ride

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a wrinkle / a line

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les infirmités de la vieillesse

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the infirmities of old age

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vulnérable

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vulnerable

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handicapé

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disabled

Q

l’impuissance (sexuelle)

A

impotence

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impuissant (sexuellement)

A

impotent

Q

la faiblesse

A

weakness

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faible

A

weak

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s’affaiblir

A

to weaken

la maladie

illness / sickness

être en bonne santé

to be in good health

être en mauvaise santé

to be in poor health

la sénilité

senility

sénile

senile

perdre la mémoire

to lose one's memory

la perte de mémoire

memory loss

la maladie d'Alzeihmer

Alzeihmer's (disease)

nécessiter des soins particuliers

to require special care

être grabataire

to be bed-ridden

une maison de retraite

a home for the aged

une maison médicalisée

a nursing home / an old people's home

la gériatrie

geriatrics

un gérontologue

a gerontologist / a geriatrician

l'âgisme, le racisme anti vieux

agism / ageism / age discrimination

être rejeté par la société

to be rejected by society

le pouvoir économiques des personnes âgées

grey power