To think 60 is old aged

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And 35 Middle aged?

My nan is 95, she doesn't like going to her day centre some days because it's 'full of old people'

My Mum died a few days before her 50th birthday I would say she was just getting to middle aged.

"I have so many much older, incredibly active, healthy and busy relatives that I now think of "old" as being 80+."

Heh, yes, my mum is in her late 60s and probably has more energy than me.

It depends what you mean by old.
Experienced? Mature and sophisticated? Confident? Knowledgeable? Erudite?
Bit sad that so many have seen it as insulting to be thought of as old.

I'm 35 this year and I still consider myself young.

But middle aged isn't old, it's just halfway through your life.

OP didn't come back then?

I don't think 35 has ever been middle aged.

You are a strange one.

Lol - you've got to be joking that 60 is old? My mum started her backpacking holidays at that age 15 years ago and this week aged 75 was climbing over (not tottering or gingerly fumbling over) styles and jumping the brooks on our Easter Monday walk. If I labelled her anything it'd be 'older' and 'retired' but elderly ? lol! Now if I'm describing my 93 year old granny maybe I might use the word elderly if she was ill and I was trying to get some time off work so I'd say 'I need go and see my elderly gran in hospital' but generally I just say gran who's 93 and is looking for some new shoes to wear to her birthday party.
It's all in the mind this age thing once you go past 18 imo and that's because before that age you're defined as a child and that can constrain you.

It's in the Bible, donchaknow.

'The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.'

Half of 70 is 35.

Of course, they probably meant men.

Its relative. I am 44 and think middle aged might start mid fifties. the older I get the older my idea of middle aged/old becomes. Therefore i will never become middle aged ;-)

I think someone might be doing their Easter homework!

They also probably mean the life span in 100 BC.

If you live to 70 then 35 certainly is middle aged.

But living to 80 is now the average so that's why 35-45 is middle aged these days.

Not unreasonable to think 60 is old. Providing you're 12.

Average life expectancy is actually 79 for men and 83 for women which is why I said 'about' 80.

Pyjamas the thread is not sexist. The OP is ageist.

I'm 62 and in my bloody prime!

Are we talking about humans here?

Of course 40+ is middle aged and I'd say around 70 for old age. What is it that people are scared of?

How is the OP ageist?

Surely, if anything, people who respond to the question as though it is an insult are the ones who are ageist.

Middle aged is not an insult. Nor is old. If people see is as a negative terrible thing and an insult to suggest it, who is ageist?

I shall assume the position and await my beating.

Definitely not! Both my pil turned 60 this year and they are certainly not 'old'. They enjoy nights out in London, road trips around America, speedboat rides and any other day out you can imagine.
They both work and fil runs the family business which his father managed until he was 85 (then died at 93).
Fil mother is 93 and I would just about call her old

So was I leedy. Middle aged doesn't have to mean per una and bridge! I just divided up a life into 3. Young,middle, old. If we get away from middle and old being " bad" then its just fact.

I'm with you Fenella What exactly is the problem?

Another one who lost someone around 60 and felt cheated (aged 58). I felt cheated because I was cheated, they had everything to live for and but for fucking cancer could have had another 15-20+ years. They were far from average life expectancy. I really hope 60 is not old because we're screwed if it is given that many of us won't see retirement until 70 plus.

I am early 30s (so not quite middle aged yet by your standards) and still feel I am young, a lot of my friends are 35 ish and they are as far from 'middle aged' as you could get - besides given the average age of life expectancy is over 70, middle aged wouldn't be at 35 anyway. I agree with the poster who said if 60 is old then what do you call the period after that? In some cases people live to 90plus, that would mean they had spent 1/3 of their lives in your 'old' category. Granted, 60 isn't 30 and people are older but I know quite a few 60 year olds who would be heavily offended at being called old including my dad who has the body and fitness levels of someone half his age on account of running and cycling many miles every week. He can out run and out cycle many a younger person - and has done on many occasion.

My nan is 83. She is not old. She looks ten years younger and had walked a mile today to bring me some supplies as I'm ill.

She is not old. she Probally will out live me

If op is agest then I think some posters have been bordering agest/disablist with the gloating at their great health in their 60's +, and how great health doesn't make them old, type comments.