To ask if you consider 60 elderly

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I would say maybe early older adulthood.

No: 80 plus is elderly. My mum is 70 and in laws are early 70s and definately not elderly

Absolutely not.
Elderly 80+ IMO (I'm in my 30s)
My dp is in his 50s and goes on like he's 101 however
My mums in her 70s, looks after herself and is bundles of fun. Not old IMO.

My DM is early 80s and would definitely consider herself elderly. I think she would have in her seventies too although I have told her before that MN doesn't endorse that .

Very interesting article from NHS:

www.nhs.uk/news/lifestyle-and-exercise/middle-age-starts-at-60-claims-media/

"The Daily Telegraph seems to think that living longer stops you ageing – "baby boomers refuse to grow old" – sadly, this is not the case."

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/24/nhs-faces-staggering-increase-in-cost-of-elderly-care-academics-warn-dementia

NHS faces staggering increase in cost of elderly care, academics warn
2.8 million people over 65
will need nursing and social care by 2025 – largely because of a significant rise in dementia-related disability, research finds

Hell no. I'm 60 now, and just as fit and healthy as I've always been.

Bloody hell I dont see myself as elderly at all. I'm still working full time and paying a mortgage.

60 is very old

60 is very old

As it's not even retirement age how can it be "very old?". Don't be so ridiculous.

@eaglejulesk it's not "ridiculous"60 is old 😂 your probably nearly there and just so scared and in denial of becoming old that your trying your hardest to convince yourself that it's not old well sorry yes it is old.

@iwwntchocolate - actually I am over 60. I'm not scared or in denial at all. Earlier this year I was working nine and a half hours a day (outside), with a half hour walk there and back, in the middle of summer - is that what "old' people do? I think, if you bothered to read the thread, that you are in the minority in thinking 60 is old. In fact, you didn't just say old, you said "very old". What do you consider someone of 90 - 100 then?

@eaglejulesk how many 100 year olds do you know 🥴🥴 come on

@iwwntchocolate - There are a few of them around - my father attended an afternoon tea for a 103 year old woman last week, my mother knew a woman who reached the grand old age of 107, and a man I see out walking sometimes is 101. And I live in a small rural town. Just because you don't know any doesn't mean they don't exist.

No. At 60 I'll still be expected to work for another 8 years, and that's the way it should be as its likely I'll then still be retired for 25 years or so.

Elderly is 80+,but some people look / seem old a bit earlier than that.

But if you seem elderly by 60, it's because you've got a health condition or you've not looked after yourself.

@iwwntchocolate there are now over 13,000 centenarians in the UK and people in their 90s are ten a penny. I have loads of friends with parents in their 90s.

Worth educating yourself before just making yourself look a bit daft. At 60 the vast majority of us will still be economically active. It’s not “very old” and you know it

Absolutely not !!
I’d say ‘elderly’ starts at 80 ish. I know a few early 80s who don’t yet suit elderly - they are more ‘older’ or even ‘old’. Elderly to me includes an intimation of fragility physical and mental (concurrent).

A friend when she was in her 20s thought 60 was all people should live to as after that you got ill and spent all your time in hospital or nursing home waiting to die

She was a geriatric nurse and that is all she saw.
She thought my in laws were a one off in that they were out and about every day and going out each night or going on holiday.all over the world.
Her family also reinforced her belief as none of them lived beyond 60. Probably because their diet was really shit. I don’t think she had more than a portion of peas and a portion of carrots per week.

I sometimes see her and her dh in town. She is 60 now and looks like she doesn’t have long to live.

I think for her it has been a self fulfilling Prophesy.

At 60 I was about to start a business in another country pre pandemic. Probably learn a new language whilst living in a different country for a few months and brush up on another language I was semi fluent in years ago. I have a teenage child and a 20 year old living at home.

Dc laugh at the bungalow living catalogues that started to appear in the post when I turned 50.

At 50 I still had children in primary school

Also i don’t think I am in denial about anything.
It wouldn’t cross my mind that I am 60 unless I look in the mirror.
If my face was that of a 20 year old I wouldn’t think twice about going and being a rep in Tenerife or going out clubbing every week

My brain still thinks I am a teenager.

I don't think 60 is old but have to say, now I'm in my mid 60s, that an awful lot of people don't live to be old ie 80s/90s.
So many acquaintances or friends of friends have died/ had life saving ops/ diagnosed with dementia - a bit like the aging celebs eg Sean Connery, David Bowie etc - there seems to be one every week!
So it's not old but it's old enough to be aware of your own mortality.

I’ve a friend in late 50’s and she’s the last person I’d consider elderly! Yet another friend who is early 60’s and she seems much older than other friend despite them only being a few years different. Think it depends on attitude and activity level.

No but it is the start of old.

@iwwntchocolate I always admire a poster who is able to critically analyse the facts and put forward a measured and well reasoned argument.

May change my user name to "OldGimmerof60" .

it's not "ridiculous"60 is old 😂 your probably nearly there and just so scared and in denial of becoming old that your trying your hardest to convince yourself that it's not old well sorry yes it is old.

The article I posted had a study that said geriatric care often begins 10 to 15 years before death so that would make the geriatric care bracket 65 to 70 years on average.

@anxiiousone

The article I posted had a study that said geriatric care often begins 10 to 15 years before death so that would make the geriatric care bracket 65 to 70 years on average.

Because average life expectancy in UK is nearly 82 now