102 years old.
At what age do you consider someone to be Elderly?
I think it's more a condition of age than a number.
I am with Z on this one. It is more an attitude or physical condition than a number. According to the calendar my mother is 2 years younger than my mother-in-law. Judging on attitude and physical abilities they closer to 2 decades apart, with my mother still being the younger.
What ever age I happen to be when asked. Currently 56. I get away with more playing the sweet little old lady.
Its more like your ability to get around. Ihad four surgeries. I can barely walk andhave incontinence at 55 yrs old
Maybe 65, though there are other factors that affect the usage of the word, I think. As others have pointed, "elderly" brings up connotations of limited physical ability. My dad will be 60 this year, but I certainly don't see him as "elderly".
My husband and I were torturing the kids by playing some of the music we listened to when we were their age. He says to me "remember buying the CD to this one when it first came out?" I said "no I bought it..." and we BOTH said tape! Cassette tapes!!! I told him I was gonna start a mid life crisis now! 😫😭
I now consider "elderly" to be at least 15 years older than myself. Therefore elderly is now 86. And in September, will officially move to 87.
I guess in there eighties.
70 its already old
Well, my grandmother, we were sent to a nursing home when she was 62. She had very much progressed dimention. She did not recognize us and she did not understand where she was. Sometimes she looked at us as usual, called by names, and then behaved as if we were strangers to her. We sent her to care home. We often visit her. You never know how she will take our visit. Once, she took me for her brother's honey. And it's creepy. We simply did not have the opportunity to look after her because of work. So to send her to a place where they can take care of her was the right decision. Well, I think so.
