What would you say is middle aged?

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Am curious

I'm 53, I'd say I'm middle aged.

Am I wrong?

So what are the ages...
Child
Adolescent
Young adult 20?
Adult 30
Middle aged40/60
Old 70?
Elderly 80?

40+

40-60

I will be 52 this summer. Yeah I think I feel middle aged now.

50 plus Middle Aged, 65 plus is older then elderly depends more on the person I know 75 year olds running around still working then same age all frail and elderly looking

I have more years behind me than I have in front of me and I'm 47 so consider myself middle aged - you could say it's a state of mind, my sister is older and noone could never say she was middle aged!

63 here and haven't felt much different for the past 15 or so . Long may it continue. I think of myself as middle aged but realise to many I'm old.
My reasoning is I won't qualify for my state pension until I'm 66, I'm not entitled to a bus pass or virtually any senior citizen concession as most start at state pension age so I can't be old.

I’m 46 and I’m not middle aged. I think 50 for middle age, 75 for old

40 is middle aged. I think those who protest are kidding themselves about average life expectancy

The reason 70 plus is old age is because that's going to be pension age very soon (I'm predicting)

To be pedantic 45-68 is middle age

68 plus is elderly

Everyone going on about 50 plus being old age is crazy - the mean life expectancy is I think 83 for women, 76 for men?

I agree with 50 as middle aged and 75 as old. 65 is a grey area.

It's always ten years older than my current age

Grey wasn't a pun sorry

I think 40-50 middle aged. 50-70 old and 70+ elderly

From a BBC website:
Middle age starts much later than previously thought - at the age of 55, research suggests.

And Britons do not see themselves as elderly until they are nudging 70, the survey of 1,000 UK adults aged 50-plus for the Love to Learn online learning website says.

Previous studies have pinpointed the start of middle age as early as 36.

The research suggests that as the population ages, new cut-off points are being drawn.

According to official national data, there are now more adults over 65 than there are under-16s.

Although seven out of 10 early 50-somethings quizzed for the survey defined themselves as middle-aged, the average age at which the period of life was perceived to start was 54 years and 347 days old.

I'd say 50-60 I know people dont live to 100 but if I was describing someone as missle aged is mean this age bracket.

50 isn't old but 70 could be?

I'm 44 and not middle aged!!!.......am I ????

I’m 53 and I think 50+ is middle aged

Not yet Wine 😁

I think 40 is too young to be middle aged though?

But then 40 is without doubt too old to be considered 'young' isn't it?

Would you really refer to a 40 year old as a 'young' man or woman?

I'm not young,

I'm not old.

I'm definitely not middle aged either though.

I'm timeless.

At the moment I'd say middle aged is 45 - 60, though I might feel differently in a couple of years when I reach 45!

For me, 60-80 is older, possibly old. I wouldn't go for elderly until 80+. But my family tend to live into their 90's in reasonable health - one grandparent was still cycling at 93, so I have a somewhat skewed view.

The life expectancy figures I can find are 83 for women, almost 80 for men. So I accept my family is unusual.

Middle age is the middle of your life. I know strictly speaking the definition is 40 - 65 but I think of it more as 40 - 55.

I just turned 40 and love being middle aged. To me it means financial security, fab holidays, good quality clothes, not caring what people think and no longer having to go to shit clubs.

I'd say 40-60ish. If life expectancy is say, 80, wouldn't middle age be the middle 20 years of 30-50? But I guess we're not adults until 18... so 62 years of adulthood, middle 20 (arbitrary figure but about a third of adulthood) would be 39-59. So initial thought wasn't far off