Anyone over 65 and still have both parents?

[Sweetaddiction88]

Just as the title suggests, interested to see. I thought it was wonderful that Prince Charles had both parents alive until the age of 72.

(Amazing they lived and were married for so long, not that he will lose both parents close together!)

Dad was almost 20 when I was born mum 18. Sadly he died at the age of 46. I guess had he lived to as old as his grandparents (all four well into their 90s) I could have been a 70 year old with both parents alive. Mum is turning 59 soon and her parents I would say are early 80s

@serin

We had an 82year old patient in hospital recently and her 100 year old DM rang up every day to check on her.

So lovely to hear this 😃

I didn't manage to get to 40 before my DM died. My poor brothers were in their early 20s. Would love to be able to say yes!

I was barely 20 when my mam died. I’m always so jealous when I hear of people in their 50’s/60’s still having their parents.... I was robbed!

Not me, but a good friend aged 68. Her dad is 91, mum 90. Both some trouble walking but otherwise sharp as ever and really enjoy life.
Apart from three years of college and one year living away for her first job, my friend has lived with them all her life. They get on really well. She will miss them unbelievably when they die.

I think my dad was in his late 60s when he lost his dad, and his mum died a few years later. My parents are 77 and 80, my mum still has her mum which means my dad still has his MIL at 80 and she's still going strong!

@GrumpyHoonMain

My best friend is 50 and has not only her parents (70s) but all of her grandparents (1 is 102 and the other 100; other side 90s) too. All active, mobile, do their own shopping

Wow, that must be incredibly unusual!

@Anna727b - in her background apparently not.

I’m nearly 60, dad died when I was 17, mum died four years ago aged 93. They weren’t young when they had me.

It’s very unusual.
My DM didn’t die until I was 67, she was 97.

But TBH it would have been a mercy if she’d gone a bit sooner - her last years with advanced dementia were no fun for her at all.

I was only about 40 when my DF died.

The Queen’s own DM lived to 101 or 102, IIRC.