To wonder why up to 35 is now considered young

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I’ve just seen an article where young people are referred to as being up to 35. Aibu to wonder why this is when it used to be 25 maximum that was viewed as a young person.

I don’t think muddled age the literal age in the middle. So yes 38-40 would be middle aged technically.

I agree with the other poser that said -

18-30 young adult
31-50 adult
50-60 middle aged
60+ older adult
80+ very elderly

I have friends ranging from early 20's to (relatives who are also friends) well into their 90's. Its not about the actual figure, I have met people in their 40's and by the way they act,dress, was shocked thinking they were probably 20 years older. I have a friend and neighbour in her 80's who goes to the gym, does samba classes.Then of course then,there's your "biological age". Had the tests, blood works etc, at 69, my bio age is 48, I was dissapointed it was that high.I am not try to "stay" young, just fit,healthy and active.

I'll be 67 by the time I can retire and I don't want to be considered as elderly as soon as I get my pension.

With a lot of people, it is their mindset. NDN's are only a year or two older than DH (who is several years older than me) and they have been acting like old-age pensioners for about the last decade. DH is most definitely nowhere near that stage.

I think it depends on your outlook, your lifestyle, your fitness level, energy and well being.

I know people in their 60s who exercise, eat healthily, are fit and enjoy life. I know some much younger who are sedentary, do very little and are unhealthy.

But, as has been said, on here you’re a liability if you’re older and should just go and sit in a corner and wait to keel over. Particularly in recent months.

TableFlowers I agree with the other poser that said -

"18-30 young adult
31-50 adult
50-60 middle aged
60+ older adult
80+ very elderly"

I would agree with that except over 80 being automatic "very elderly". While it is an age at which the years catch up quickly, it does depend on the genes you inherit. My mother's family are unusually long-lived (so much so that anyone dieing in their late seventies or early eighties is met with astonishment as to how "young" they were when they died so tragically early, and the cause attributed to something unusually stressful happening in their lives so as to upset the normal pattern).

My grandmother was an active cyclist well into her eighties, having only taken it up in her sixties, and one notable great great grandfather lived to nearly a hundred and stayed perfectly lucid and active by going on decent length daily walks right up until the end.

If someone dies at the age of 35, you’d say they were young, wouldn’t you?

To be fair someone dying in their 60s would be dying young these days but it doesn't make a 60 something a young person

Your only as old as you feel, I’m 49 and I still feel young and I won’t have any one tell me otherwise, after all your a long time dead x

People live well into their eighties and nineties now. They marry and have children far later. My grandparents - all four of them - died in their sixties. My parents, despite very serious long term illnesses are still going in their eighties. My parents married at 21 and had children in their twenties. I married at 30 and had DC just before I turned forty. And that's quite typical these days.

35 is still very young in terms of life experience and expectancy in comparison with previous generations.

I'm 32 and still don't think of myself as a "grownup" My DM is 68 and incredibly active, loads of hobbies etc. so I never think of her as old in the slightest. She's probably fitter than a lot of ppl in their 30s/40s.

I’m in my late 20s and a lot of my friends are still living with parents or in shared houses/student let type situations. Some of them are still at uni, none of them (apart from me) have kids yet. A few are engaged but none married yet. None of us own houses. My partner is in his mid 30s and still has friends his age who live with their parents.

I think it’s largely a financial thing, no one can afford to ‘grow up’ so young any more

But also a health thing- people are living for longer now

God I'm 25 and only finished uni 3 years ago. I'm 6 months out of internships etc and in my first well paid job. I still feel very young...

People insist on referring to Harry & Meghan as a "young couple" (as in, poor them) when she is pushing 40 and he's not far behind.

I think people are acting younger, older. I remember my nanny in her 60s - she wore the same fashions she’d been wearing for the previous 30 years, spent a lot of time in her house etc. My mum is in her 60s, changes her clothes with the different trends, goes out drinking with friends, travels, uses social media, rolls with the times so to speak. I think the gulf between old and young behaviours emerges later in life now.

@IncandescentSilver

TableFlowers I agree with the other poser that said -

"18-30 young adult
31-50 adult
50-60 middle aged
60+ older adult
80+ very elderly"

I would agree with that except over 80 being automatic "very elderly". While it is an age at which the years catch up quickly, it does depend on the genes you inherit. My mother's family are unusually long-lived (so much so that anyone dieing in their late seventies or early eighties is met with astonishment as to how "young" they were when they died so tragically early, and the cause attributed to something unusually stressful happening in their lives so as to upset the normal pattern).

My grandmother was an active cyclist well into her eighties, having only taken it up in her sixties, and one notable great great grandfather lived to nearly a hundred and stayed perfectly lucid and active by going on decent length daily walks right up until the end.

I did actually think once I’d posted that, that I would change it and say 80-90 elderly 90+ very elderly.

That’s probably how I’d put it.

I'd still consider 'young' up to 25! But as a 30 year old for my social group I am considered young to have had a child, own a property etc

So maybe it's in line with how many life events are happening later as a general rule.

@DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult

Because all the once young people are getting older, but still feel young 😂😂

Yep this!

I am 47 and still feel young. I know i am not of course but I still feel it.

I think 35 is old young as it’s not really young but not middle aged either.

I seem much younger than my mum did at my age, probably because she was married younger and by the time she was the age I am now both her kids were adults. My youngest is just starting high school.

To me (Gen X)

U35 Young
35 - 59 Middle aged
60+ Old
80+ Elderly

I remember the conversation with MIL 68 and DH 32

"If you're middle aged what does that make me?"
"Old obviously,"

She wasn't impressed

I agree with @babydisney on the age range

In the sport of rowing you are considered a Veteran at the age of 28...

I expect to live well into my 80s and 90s and I expect to have a good quality of life too. I also will not get a pension until nearly 70. So I will be working until then. The pension age for women has gone up and up and up it was 60 and then 65 (to make it equal) and now it is 68 -I have another 20 working years. I don't want to -but needs must.

I'd assume it's either:
-- a service or product normally targeting young adults expanding its market (I think a lot of young people aimed charities like the Prince's Trust goes up to 30 and that there is a need for some services considered for young people to be available to older adults),
-- a research group wanting to expand their data set in a similar way
-- or the government trying again with a policy that 'young adults' couldn't be in need of particular types of benefits like they tried with housing benefit/the housing element of UC some years back.

@MagpiePi yes but in modelling, gymnastics, ice skating you're considered 'retired' at around 24. Hardly a sign you're actually old it's just the sport requires very young bodies.