Are elderly people still “vulnerable” if they have no specific health conditions and they are triple vaccinated?

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Still humming and hawing over visiting Scotland from France over Christmas and staying with elderly relatives. We are Two adults and two children, all working in / attending schools.

Our parents are late 70s and early 80s. All triple jabbed, and (apart from mil who’s in a nursing home) they don’t have any other medical conditions that make them vulnerable in terms of Covid - they are just old.

Do they still count as vulnerable?

I would say so.
Although if you’ve had negative PCR’s I suppose it’s up to them.

Yes, the immune system declines with age.

Elderly people are vulnerable to a lot of things - a fall, pneumonia, strokes. It seems like they have done everything possible to limit their vulnerabilities to Covid - I’d say go and enjoy your time with them as who knows what the future may bring. If you wanted to reduce risk, could you book an air bnb to stay in rather than with them?

I think previously they said that being a vaccinated 80 year old was like being an unvaccinated 55 year old (something along those lines), so still much more risky than being a 20/30 year old etc.

Yes because being older makes your body more frail generally and less able to fight off infections. But - morbid as it sounds - it also makes you more prone to dying of old age (!) so if they’re triple jabbed and happy to see you I would just go for it. Like someone else said no one knows what the future holds, make the most of now.

Yes, sadly.

Yes because they're old. More vulnerable to infection and if they get one it is harder for their immune system to fight it off.

Do they want you to come and are they happy to take that risk ? That's the questions I'd be asking along with do you have good insurance and back funds if you do come and how bad would it be if you had to quarantine for a period at either end.