This is the 5513th most frequent Russian word.
пожилых
"Пожилых" means "elderly" or "older people" in English.
adjective describing 'людей', applied to specify elderly individuals as the group.
Эта программа направлена на помощь пожилых людей.
This program is aimed at helping elderly people.
used as a noun (adjective transformed to represent a group of people).
Пожилых часто необходимо поддерживать.
The elderly often need to be supported.
similarly, used to represent a group in society as a noun.