Age

rach29

My parents are 75 (Dad) and 74 (Mum) They have just returned from skiing in the French Alps where they have spent every winter since they retired 20 years ago. Sadly they had to come back early as Mum fell & broke her shoulder. In her words " I wouldn't mind, I was only on a blue run" :0)) I think Elderly is a state of mind not an age & I hope very much to have a full & active retirement like my parents. Unfortunately, it will be a long time before I can hope to retire :0( BTW my grandmother is 96. Still lives independently ' gets the bus in to town to do her shopping & walks to church. I hope & pray I got a good dose of those genes!!

pollypenny

My mother, at 69, used to be busy at the community centre cooking for 'the old aged' .

harrys_nan

Thankyou everyone for your input, I think I can safely say now, I am def not elderly :T
I do think it's a mind thing, feel old and you become old. I will continue wearing my jeans and my makeup and feel good

motorguy

balletshoes wrote: »

I associate it with age and frailty together. For example, my mum is 68, she's still working, still has a full social life, still physically and mentally able. I don't consider her elderly.

One of her friends is maybe 5 years older, but has been in poor physical health for at least those 5 years, she is restricted in what she feels she can do because of it, and I do consider her to be elderly in my head.

+1

Have to agree

Plus being "old" is all relative.

My FIL is 76 and a family friend died recently and i commented he had been "a right wee age" when he passed on. My FIL interrupted to say no he had "only" been 84!

VestanPance

Nobody in my family has ever reached the age of 70. Most aged badly once various illnesses started to take hold.

If you've got good health, enjoy it. Age means nothing without good health.

Georgiegirl256

My Mam is 74 but regularly goes up to a sheltered accommodation complex for the coffee morning etc, she has friends in there that are well into their 90's! She's always rushing around serving all the 'old bods' their tea and coffee etc! The one that got her into going up there in the first place sadly passed away yesterday at the age of 94 (RIP Jean), and up until a week or so before she took ill, was still "working" at the Credit Union!

I think if you keep going, and keep active, age is just a number. If you just sit there then that's when age catches up with you.

seven-day-weekend

I am 64 today and my husband was 65 a couple of weeks ago, but we both work at house/petsitting, he is chief Fire Marshal at our Church and I'm about to start a voluntary job as a Job Club Coach, so no way are we 'old dears'

We looked round a McCarthy and Stone Development about a year ago (just gathering ideas for the future) and were asked if we were looking on behalf of our parents.:rotfl::beer:

So 'elderly' varies according to the person, I think.

seven-day-weekend

Judi wrote: »

Elderly = when your able to draw your state pension.

No... that is when you become wise and mature.

ttc39

its funny, when i was younger i used to think of someone in their fifties as being old.. now i think , "they were only 90 - thats no age!"

we have a woman here who is 54 and keeps saying "im on borrowed time".. but she is old before her time... as for me im aiming for a 100 !!

lostinrates

A friend mentioned things for my father were tough because 'its hard when you reach that age' . I pointed out he was 69 (just) and she shocked said she thought he was in his 80s . My mother is older than my father but seems younger.