Anonymous wrote:Old for what? Having a baby or having arthritis?

Menopause often comes with arthritis and 45 to 50 is when Peri usually begins.

A lot of you feeling "old" at 45 were lucky enough to be pretty healthy in your earlier years. I inherited some bad luck from my family line, and after surviving what my grandmother and aunts didn't--thank you modern medicine--I feel better than I have in years at 44. But I don't see having to go to the doctor 3-4x a year, or having to see a specialist (or 2 or 3) as being "old." That was the hand I got dealt when I was "young," so it doesn't signal "old" to me. Aside from that family curse, most of my relatives lived into their nineties, and I for one am hoping to do the same and doing everything in my power to live as healthy and full a life as I can for as long as I can. Maybe if I'd never had to deal with medical woes, the need for reading glasses and hair dye would bother me. It does not.

No. When I was a young working person the 40ish yo people didn't seem that old to me. I always thought of old as 60+. Now I think of old as 70+.

No, but if you asked me 20 years ago I would have told you yes

Old isn’t about how able or unable you are or how you feel, it is just an indicator of age. IMO 45 is middle aged.

I hada 3 y.o. In preschool when I was 45 so, no, I don’t consider that old.

45 is solidly in the middle age range, not "old".

I quit thinking 45 was old by the time I finished college. At that age, I thought 60 was old.
As I get older (now 60!) the goal posts continue to move. Age 75 is now "old."

Quoting Billy Crystal from the Princess Bride:
“It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbE8E1ez97M

45 to me would feel the exact same as 30 if it were not for concern about one's own parents and in-laws aging and physically having to witness it. My vitality is the same, I am young in my head, I don't look old (to me!), my teens don't find me old. But wow is it a wakeup call having to deal with the prospects of eldercare. It makes me feel more like an old adult than anything else in life.

45 is middle-aged.

60 is old (don't tell my dh, he's 67 and I'm "middle-aged" lol).

Yes very old

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say 40-59 was middle aged. 60+ is old

You expect to live to 118?

You seem very literal. Must be under 45. 😉

Absolutely not. Over 85 is old.

Old for what? Having a baby or having arthritis?

Yes. Not as old as I am, but relatively old. --- Signed, 57 y/o