S/O How old is Elderly?

LuckyDad · November 2012

How old does a person have to be for you to consider them elderly? No CP, sorry, use your words.

nancy30005 · November 2012

I don't consider my parents elderly. They're 65ish.

Grandma = 90? Yup. Elderly. And hilarious.

(Is this because of the dad condom post? Because I thought the same thing. If not, carry on.)

ATMmom324 · November 2012

70+ is elderly. The older i get the older elderly gets. If you had asked me at 15 I would have told you 50.

cgr8979 · November 2012

Anything older than ehhh 75 is elderly in my eyes.

saraboston · November 2012

I work with geriatrics, so to me, elderly is more a health status rather than a specific age. You can be 60 with diabetes, hypertension, and limited mobility and be elderly. You can also be 80 and running marathons and not "elderly" IMO.

ATMmom324 · November 2012

Pfft:
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Darn. I am elderly and my 38 y/o husband must have one foot in the grave.

NotSharknado · November 2012

70 plus.

NotSharknado · November 2012

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I should be in a home right now.

Gracey_Manor Maid · November 2012

I think it depends on the person. I don't see my grandfather as elderly because he looks and acts the same now as he did when I was 10 and he is in his eighties.

I think after 90 is what I would consider elderly.

MrsPteranodon · November 2012

For me it has to do with health more than age. My grandparents are 75 and 77 and are so sickly and old. I consider them elderly. My husbands great grandma is 98 and lives alone, and does everything herself (minus driving, she has a senior companion for that) She does not seem elderly to me.

KJmashup · November 2012

My arbitrary minimum for elderly status is 75 years, I think. I don't really know why.

RockyTopVols · November 2012

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MommaG123 · November 2012

I think it depends on the person and their health status as well as they're age. I would say around 70 as a starting point for the most part though.

LuckyDad · November 2012

My FIL is 63 or 64, and he's in better cardiovascular shape than I am. He doesn't seem close to elderly to me. On the other end, I don't think I've met an 80 year old who didn't seem "Old". So I know the line is somewhere in between those two points. I'm pretty comfortable saying "If you're 75, you're elderly", but there's definitely a gray area in that first decade of "retirement years".

LadyXaverian · November 2012

I probably would have said 70s at one point. but my ILs are in their 70s, and I don't consider them elderly. So now I'll say 80s. I think it depends on the people.

missyishere · November 2012

I would say it's dependent on their wellness, but I would say a general age would be approximately 70. My dad isn't even 50 yet, and my grandma is only 72.

JenninMA · November 2012

To me elderly = infirm, so an active 90 year old might not seem elderly, while a 65 year old with major health problems would be. My parents are in their early 70s but super active- Dad cycles, does spin classes; Mom does yoga, walking, is in bunch of clubs, they sail, travel, hang out with friends: definitely not elderly. But I'll sometimes read an obit in the paper for someone younger than my parents who was in elderly housing and had chronic problems and based on the photo think the person looks old. My Nana died at 103 and I truly didn't see her as "old" until the last few years- hell, she lived on her own until she was 101.

MrsGoodkat · November 2012

I would say 80+ but like others it would depend on their health. My grandfather always seemed elderly because he had a slew of health issues. My grandmother was spry until she died of cancer at 82. If she hadn't had cancer I bet she still wouldn't seem elderly at almost 90.

tarebear9891 · November 2012

My grandma was water skiing until the year she turned 80. Now ten years later she is elderly to me.

DHs 66 year old grandma has a ton of health issues and generally acts much older and she seems elderly.

So I don't even account for age I guess.

AshasaurusRex · November 2012

Honestly, it depends on the person. My grandmother just turned 87 and she was dancing to gangnam style and cracking up at Andy Sandberg's *** in a Box the last time I was with her, she doesn't really seem elderly to me. I've met some 60 year olds that act super old, age is just as much a state of mind as it is a physical age.

AshasaurusRex · November 2012

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You shut your face.

Smootchy · November 2012

Mid 70's early 80's I would say elderly. But I agree with who ever said it keeps increasing as I get older. When I was 15, I'm sure I thought 50 or 60 was "elderly".

PeonyPumps · November 2012

saraboston:
I work with geriatrics, so to me, elderly is more a health status rather than a specific age. You can be 60 with diabetes, hypertension, and limited mobility and be elderly. You can also be 80 and running marathons and not "elderly" IMO.

This exactly. I've known 78 year olds that are out doing more than I do. They were certainly not elderly.

RayRay007 · November 2012

If I had to pick an age, 75.

But I think it depends on health and independence. I know of 65 year olds who seem more elderly than my 85 y.o. nana.

nanabanana06 · November 2012

Elderly is more of mindset or physical thing than an age one. Like my GP isn't 70 yet, but I consider him elderly since he physically seems elderly (can't walk well, fall risk, frail, ect... he had 3 strokes). My Grandpa C though I don't consider elderly and he is 73!

Hesterlicious · November 2012

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