What age do you consider old?

[JoolsToo]

OK I have a vested interest

Just listening to someone phoning in to Matthew Wright who says she has an old aunt - the aunt is 58!

Someone pass me me zimmer!

I would say 80

70+ ?. I usually base my opinion when faced with an actual person and on how old they look.

My Mum is 50 , looks great etc etc..and so is not old at all.

Woman over the road is late 50s, nearly 60 ish (I think) and seems old to me because she isnt very fit and has a lot of her family running round doing things for her.

i think its attitude rather than years that makes you old.

how old is middle aged?

I agree with mazzy - my mum is the same ageish as mil, mil is active, lively, middle aged but totally erm...'hip' my mum on the other hand has acted like a doddery old grandma with a shaky voice since she was 40... she likes playing the invalid..

my dad is 86 .. but he only got old about 2 years ago

mum is 68 and still young

We have an 80 something year old great granny (to my kids obv) and she still acts younger than my fifty something mum!

It was only when her leg 'went' one day due to a slightly botched hip replacement that I realised she might not actually live forever

Amazing how attached you can become to your partner's family in a short period of time, I'll be crying floods of tears when she finally goes (in at least fifteen years time!)

I used to think that late sixties was old. My mum is now at that stage and although physically she's not as well or active as she was, mentally she's still got it.

It does occasionally shock me to think she may only be around for another 10 years, maybe 20, or so. The older you get the faster time goes, it's very scary!

I clearly remember 14 seeming aged.

Who knows? I would have said 70/75, but my mil and pil are only a few years off that and are younger than me in spirit.

My parents are 50 and 55 and tbh they are ancient to me: dad has a beige anorak and flat cap, mum has surrendered herself to bosomy middle-age spread and arthritis. [rolls eyes]

quelsouci, by all means, and I'll tell you that about 95+ is old

Well, I'm 51 (I was a late starter with dd's!) and I honestly feel about 35. I think old is a mental attitude but if pushed would say late 70's.

100 is old.

90 is probably old.

I think your view is tempered by people you know - DH's granny is nearly 95, but is definitley not "old".