Are you elderly?

I'm only elderly when I'm faced with umpteen steps at railways stations!!! Otherwise I'm just 'me'

At the risk of upsetting anyone over 80, generally speaking that's the age I would term as 'elderly' I am 64 which at one time would have been classed as elderly .I think generally we olderlies(new word?) are around the 60s ,70s , no ageist offence meant to anyone . ?

I'm over 80 and don't mind being elderly.
A man on another forum classified himself as "geriatric"

ps
I don't think I'm quite at that stage yet.
One definition is "decrepit; very old or outdated.
replacements for a geriatric locomotive fleet"

At the age of 30, in my first pregnancy, I was (hilariously) classed as 'elderly primigravida', a term which, I think, is now out of use as so many women now wait until they're over 30 to start a family.

One way to find out if you are old is to fall down in front of a lot of people
If they laugh, you're still young
If they panic and start running to you, you're old

(Borrowed, with thanks, from "Silversurfers")

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Yes, and if they tell other people that you've 'had a fall' rather than 'fallen over', you're definitely elderly/old...

annodomini I got that description at 27, just 28 when the baby was born.

DD teased me with the 'had a fall' phrase when I tried to walk down a steep damp grassy bank with smooth soled shoes and my feet went from under me. She won't do it again

I suppose as so many of us don't feel we are elderly, we should be refusing our bus passes and free tv licences. And we should be quite amenable to the government forever pushing the penshionable age further and further away.

I'm already retired, not yet entitled to a free tv licence and haven't claimed my free bus pass - why so sarky Notme? What have any of these things got to do with how we feel, age-wise?

I just feel we can't have it all ways. If we feel as fit as a middle aged person, perhaps we shouldn't get the perks.

Btw, I am seventy-five and elderly.

My passport photo taken 5 years ago makes me look like I am in a Texas prison....pale, no smile, staring like a mugshot straight into the camera (not that I have ever had a mugshot).

I am in my late 50's and recently someone offered to get the local AGE UK to come around to do a energy assessment of my home.

Late 50's, elderly, really?

I was 70 this year but I do not class myself as elderly I am just older.

I got thinking about this last night. I was on the phone to DD, who is 43. I was commiserating with her about needing reading glasses and the fact that she has recently bought a reading light. We also discussed that she sometimes has mild symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome, something I have.

I suddenly realised that, regardless of age, you are elderly when you and one of your children have a bonding session talking about your shared symptoms of aging.

Well, I may be an 'older' person but at least I am retired, can please myself and am not just retiring at 96 like some people (see other thread)