Shorthand for 60 something

When my family took me to New Place in Stratford as my 60th birthday treat, the lady selling tickets asked if we had any vintage persons in our group. I was happy to own up to that - and to get my very first vintage person's discount!

My 92 year old neighbour was affronted when her GP referred to her as an elderly lady.

DH calls us "war babies" although in fact we are both pre-war babies, it's an excuse for saving rubber bands, bits of string and hanging on to old clothes.
We're not elderly yet though!

I was going to say the same Ana the fact that I won't be a 'pensioner' for a few years yet rankles.
I'd be happy to be referred to as 60 + lady from XYZ (I'm 62)

It's a tough one isn't it. I'm 65 (just) and I would be horrified to be described as elderly. I think the usage has become pejorative. If you see a newspaper headline that begins with the word "Elderly....." you can be sure that a story about driving the wrong way along a motorway or some similar foolishness, will follow.

I don't feel elderly, and I don't think I dress in the manner which is expected of an "elderly" person - I don't possess a single cardigan but I do have a few hoodies!

Yes, Bellanonna, the press always used to refer to anyone over 60-ish as a 'pensioner', but these days that could be completely inaccurate since the changes in pensionable age.

'Gran of 3' etc. is another favourite, but the woman in question could be as young as late thirties!

A lot of older Australian people travel around the country after they retire in their campervans - they call them 'Grey Nomads' - baby boomers and mature age travellers
I am not grey yet so not eligible.

.....and 'Grandmother of 5' as if that defined us, much as I love my 2 DGC

Older person. I notice the papers usually say " pensioner, Jane smith" and the person is in her early 60s. I am of an age that would be described as elderly but I don't see myself as such. And neither do my daughters. I'm happy to self-mockingly refer to myself as an old fogey, e.g. If I'm asking a theatre if they do reductions for my age group I might use thst, or some other equally disparaging term. Just in fun. Actually the American usage of seniors is quite respectful I think and I do see it increasingly being used here. Meanwhile older person is ok too.

Crumblies.

Old gits works for me.

Maybe we should all just stop using adjectives and simply state a person's age. Then it's perfectly clear and readers/viewers can think what they like. There can be, of course, a huge difference, mentally and physically, between two people who are the same age, and that can be less of a difference than there is between another two people whose ages are thirty-five years apart.

It bothers me not one jot if someone thinks I'm old. I may be, after all, compared with them. So maybe another approach is to stop caring what other people think.

In addition we all have the freedom to think what we like about other people. I daresay a good deal of it is erroneous.

A reporter wouldn't use that though. You are stuck with 'elderly'.

Later middle-aged?

I think in the USA they refer to "seniors". That is marginally better than "elderly but not much!

We do.seem to be stuck. Baby boomers, elderly, recently retired, decrepit, older, those born post war.........or just prefer US.