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Boomers are 60-80 years old. That’s elderly.
by chgs 2y ago
Boomers are 60-80 years old. That’s elderly.
- ffsm8 2y agoTbf, streamers, kids etc constantly call people in their thirties boomer. I feel like it's becoming a word describing people that have passed their prime (~35+ yo). Yes, I'm fully aware that the word initially described people that were born during the baby boomer years (~1950) and that the people that are currently 35yo are millennials.
- ptsneves 2y agoI am 35 and I was called a boomer by some youngling colleagues. I laughed like a true boomer full of sneer that those younglings are all a bunch of lazy losers that will not amount to anything as great as me all their life. I am pretty sure the generation before me thought the same and so on. It is great!
- walthamstow 2y ago> typically 80 years ago was 1944 - not exactly a boom year. Most are 60-65-70 and would not consider themselves elderly. It's a very loaded word.
- SoftTalker 2y ago50s are "late middle age", and 60-65 is the crossover point to "elderly" in my book. You're likely in the last couple of decades of your life by then.
- chgs 2y agoIn most western countries your 60s is when you start drawing an old age pension. The post ww2 boom started when people got home so births from about 1946. Those people have been drawing US social security for over a decade.
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- ninalanyon 2y agoI guess you are in your twenties?
- Dylan16807 2y agoThere's plenty of sources out there for definitions. Most of them say 65 and almost all of the rest say 60. You go directly from middle aged to elderly, there isn't a step in between. Being elderly can cover a very wide range of years.
- hildolfr 2y ago65 is well into 'AARP territory', as my elderly father would call it. That said, I've had friends that were elderly in their mid thirties.. State of mind and all that.
- implements 2y agoMiddle age is 45 to 65, and Old age can perhaps be thought of as the following three ten year periods: Go, Go-slow, No-go - that would make elderly as 75+ (Rationale being retirement planning advisors encourage people to make the most of those first ten years (65 to 75) to do bucket-list things while (usually) they still can)
- ninalanyon 2y agoI'm slap bang in the middle of that range at 68. I do not consider myself elderly.