To ask what age you consider a young adult to be

[thedaywewillremeber]

I personally consider up to age 30 a young adult. I would consider 65 plus an older adult. I’m in my 40’s I wonder if our own age affects what we define as young or old.

18-29

If life expectancy is approx 80 then middle age is 40 unless you expect to live to 98 or 137!

0-17 = baby/child/teen
17-19 late teens some young adults
18-21 young adult some late teens
22- 39 adult
40-45 middle aged adult
46-59 wrong side of middle age
60- 70 older adult
70 retired (hopefully for most) older adult
70-80 getting old- dependent on health
80 + old but again plenty of healthy active people in this bracket
100+ officially ancient!

I also feel strongly 21 should be reflected in things like housing benefit entitlement. If you're a working rent paying adult and in financial trouble, your age shouldn't come into it, also you should be being payed NMW at 21 at the oldest for a full time job.
At a university 60 yr old students where being officially referred to as geriatric. All part of trying to move peoples conceptions of who should be treated as important and 'still learning' and who no longer mattered and was no longer considered needed.

Yes I do find ridiculous that the adult wage in the uk isn’t till 25!