What age do you consider old?

[Roxxy]

When I was growing up I would consider anyone over 30 old. Now that I am older I would definitely be considered old by young people.

So, I think about 70 is old and health matters more than age

 

[Chris]

I think I agree with 70. Whenever I see a story about someone passing in their 60s I think, "that's far too young!"

I'm in my 30s. My parents are both early 50s and I definitely don't consider them old. I was just thinking earlier that if I had a kid soon and they took it out for a walk people would be more likely to assume that my mum was the mother, not grandmother!

When I was born my gran was still in her 40s and I remember thinking as a kid that that was elderly. I think my perception was warped by the fact she didn't take care of her health. She looked so much older than she was.

 

[Alolan_Apples]

I would say about 30 or 40, but what I learned is that you don’t start feeling old after passing a certain age, but rather when you couldn’t do things as fast as you use to.

70 though is when I call the elderly stage.

 

[Asarena]

I agree with 70. Someone in their 60s isn't that old all things considered.

 

[Doo]

Around 50? 55? Sorry I think 50+ is old, and 75+ is elderly. I’m sure I’ll feel differently once I get older though.

 

[Cirice]

I was going to say 50+ but reading Chris comment of someone passing in their 60s, yeah, I still think that's young for passing.
But it's still not... youth, per se. Your body will not want to cooperate with you if you decide to do a bunch of crazy stunts all of a sudden lol

 

[nightglow]

Honestly, 50. You lived a half century. Most people live till their 80s. Your over the hill at 50 impo. Middle age is 30s till 50.
My great aunt who is a nun says that it's all down hill from age 30 cognitively so.. depends who you ask.

 

[Wildtown]

I would have to agree, I would consider 50+ old

 

[BetsySundrop]

My age!

Dunno, actually. I think it depends on the person and what is considered old. Example- my mother. We joke about her birthday being a leveling up every year, like she's hit "level 75".
Mostly because -while she has the gray hair and some wrinkles, she just has insane energy and spends every day all day doing stuff.

She'll text (family group txt) and say she weeded a garden spot, planted some flowers, picked some figs, walked her doggo, clean in the house, and it's like 9am! And she still has a full day planned. She helps drive "old people" to their appointments sometimes. They're usually in their 90s.

But then I've seen way less active people who just seem way older, and they're like, late 40s! So I think it depends on the person and their perspective.

I do remember thinking when i was in grade school that 30 was "so old".

 

[Aniko]

Hm...I don't know, I had a great aunt who was 102 and had way more energy than I do. I think we feel old when tired, unmotivated and getting out of the bed is getting difficult.

 

[Midoriya]

I don't know that I'd consider any specific "age" to be old, but rather agree with the person above me that it depends on the person. Also, my mom only lived to be in her 60's because her life was cut short because of cancer.

My dad is even older than that and still has so much life and energy in him. He looks in great shape, too.

 

[Sarah3]

Age is just a number! Don’t really have an answer for this. Anyone can be young at heart!

 

[Neb]

As someone with older parents I don’t consider someone old until they’re 60. The whole online thing of people calling themselves old at 25-40 just because they have some back pain is silly to me. The global life expectancy in the 70s now and those people are only around halfway there or less. I honestly hope once I’m in my thirties I won’t be doing the same thing.

 

[Zerous]

Hmm that's difficult. I guess I start thinking of someone as "older" when they hit about 50, but I agree with 70 being the age of like "proper old/elderly" I guess? I also agree with the comment of anything younger than 70 feeling too young to die. I know in a medical sense generally people over about 65 are considered elderly in terms of epidemiology and health risk classifications kinda stuff.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

70-80 is pretty old, but it's kinda all relative, some 70 year olds/80 year olds look and act very spry for their ages!

 

[rocketspruggs]

I heard somewhere before that 65 is the age when one becomes an actual senior citizen.

 

[Nunnafinga]

As someone who actually is old(according to a couple of whippersnappers here)I'd say that age and being old is all in the mind.I'm sixty but I try to not think or behave like an "old" person because in my mind I really don't feel old.My body,however,begs to differ.

 

[Foreverfox]

I think 70-75 is the beginning of old. My stepmom passed at 60 and I think that was young, that’s where I come to that conclusion. Now, GETTING old is different. I think someone is getting old when they no longer know the slang being thrown around or the current “mainstream bands”. When I have to ask what new slang is, I know I’m getting old.

 

[OswinOswald]

When I turned 40, I was surprised how very “not old” I felt! I get comments at work all the time about how I look like I’m a young doctor. When I was training, I think I took umbrage at it because people were asking/commenting because they were implying that I was not experienced enough to take care of them. e.g. Are you really the doctor? You look like you just finished high school! You don’t look old enough for me to trust you. (Hey Doogie Hoswer, MD was a boy genius, so ….) Now, I joke with patients a lot that it’s a very nice compliment. (Also, I think it’s a lot more evident now than I am the one in charge. It’s really so fascinating and sad how people treat some people with respect but others without respect because of their titles! PSA: the first thing I learned in my medical training was be nice to the nurses because they can make you or break you! And as patient also, respect and be nice to them! They’re the one who’s going to feed you, turn you, help you pee/poop, so be nice to them.) I think during medical school I felt a lot older because I had gone to medical school a little later than was traditional, so there were a lot of kids in my class who were probably 6-7 years younger than me which relatively is a lot of time at that age, especially because people are still developing in their 20s, even though society says we’re ‘adults’. Although a lot of people are going to medical school after having some experience now, too.

I imagine once you’re a particular age and everyone else you know is about that age then it seems just normal to you. I also think that sometimes I’ll look at some people and say oh they are young 70, or an old 70. Age really is just a number. How you age is really important and how functional you are is also really important.

 

[Xara]

Whatever age I am feels old to me, so right now 22 LOL. I know I'm gonna piss off everyone older than me with this one, but.... 20's existential crises go crazy.... why does my back hurt.... wdym people younger than me aren't familiar with the things I grew up with.... why have I turned into my parents trying to show them things "from my youth"......

In all seriousness, I'd say I start considering someone to be old when they're in their 70's, maybe even 80's. People in their 30's, 40's, 50's and beyond feel old to me as someone in her 20's, but when you think about someone in that age range passing away... it's really not old at all.