What do you think is the best age to call someone a "Senior Citizen"?

[Michael [hXc]]

This is not what the legal age is, but when you feel someone is truly a senior citizen. I feel senior means 65 and older. What do you think?

[Dutabi84]

60 sounds about right to me, but I'm sure it varies per person.

[Penny Lane]

65

[PZelda]

65.


Holy ****. If a senior citizen means 55, then Vicki is a senior citizen now because she just turned 55 last month! :eek: I can't bear to think about that...No. So I will not consider her a senior citizen. Carol Burnett definitely is- she turns 71 on Monday.

[Michael [hXc]]

I changed my mind to 65. I was just thinking, if senior is 55, Sally Field, Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow, Stephen Talbot, Rusty Stevens, and the other kids from Leave it to Beaver are seniors. Just the thought of Jerry Mathers as a senior made me change my mind.

[PZelda]

Originally posted by BeaverFan5
I changed my mind to 65. I was just thinking, if senior is 55, Sally Field, Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow, Stephen Talbot, Rusty Stevens, and the other kids from Leave it to Beaver are seniors. Just the thought of Jerry Mathers as a senior made me change my mind.

Yep...I used to think the same when I was a little girl, too...but now I realize 55 is really not that old. A lot of people become grandparents by that age (or even earlier), but no...I don't think so. Most people don't retire until they're in their 60's.

[Penny Lane]

Originally posted by BeaverFan5
I changed my mind to 65. I was just thinking, if senior is 55, Sally Field, Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow, Stephen Talbot, Rusty Stevens, and the other kids from Leave it to Beaver are seniors. Just the thought of Jerry Mathers as a senior made me change my mind.

What is considered Middle Age these Days? 30?:lol: To me 65 or older is Senior because most people are retired and collecting Social Security by then. 55? NO WAY! I will be 54 next month and I am definitely not a Senior!:eek:

:lol: :lol:

[Michael [hXc]]

55 is definitely not senior. Young is up until 50, 50-65 is middle age, and 65+ is senior.

[Penny Lane]

Originally posted by Miss Vicki
Yep...I used to think the same when I was a little girl, too...but now I realize 55 is really not that old. A lot of people become grandparents by that age (or even earlier), but no...I don't think so. Most people don't retire until they're in their 60's.

I was a grandmother at 41!:D

[PZelda]

Originally posted by Penny Lane
I was a grandmother at 41!:D

Let's see...my brother was my maternal grandparents' first grandchild...Yep. If I have it figured out...my grandma was 48 and my grandpa, 47. (RIP)

41 is pretty young! :eek:

[Michael [hXc]]

A girl in my class at school has a grandmother who is 47, and she is 10, so that meant she became a grandmother at age 37! That's really young. The youngest possible to become a grandmother is 24, because people can reproduce at age 12, but it is not a good thing to do.

[Mijada]

I'd say 65 but it really depends on the person. There are a lot of people nowdays who feel and look much younger than they are and are offended at being called a senior citizen.

[Janice]

I've always thought of 65 as a senior citizen, and age 75 as elderly.

I also think that somewhere in your 40s is considered middle age.

[FamilyTiesGOP]

I say 70 because of the increasing life expectancy. I heard in the International Business Forum that I went to at my college that a child under 10 today COULD live to be 120.

[Michael [hXc]]

The average life expectancy is actually late 80s, early 90s, but 100 is very likely. But I know some people who I would hate to see live to 100.

[Cashodeen]

65 is the accepted age for being a senior citizen right? That's the age I always associate it with. But I still think of 65 is jivin'. I don't really ever think of people as old until 85. Heck, some people even seem young then! I know my grandpa did.

[Cashodeen]

LMAO, for the first time ever, I put a message in the wrong thread. Man, i was in a hurry.

[Stuck In The '70's]

Originally posted by Cashodeen
65 is the accepted age for being a senior citizen right? That's the age I always associate it with. But I still think of 65 is jivin'. I don't really ever think of people as old until 85. Heck, some people even seem young then! I know my grandpa did.
My next door neighbor is approaching 90 and he is still very active.

[PZelda]

Originally posted by BeaverFan5
The average life expectancy is actually late 80s, early 90s, but 100 is very likely. But I know some people who I would hate to see live to 100.

Yeah...Many people up here live to be 95-100. It's always surprising when I read an obit about a person that lived to be 100+. THere was somebody that died recently that lived to be 103, and when I was a senior in HS, there was somebody who was still alive at 107. That was almost two years ago, so she would be almost 109 right now (if she's still alive).

Also, the week before I graduated from HS, this guy who used to work at my school turned 90. he'd started working at my school in...Oh, I don't know. The late 50's/60's and then he retired in 1980 or so. He still came to my school a lot to volunteer with stuff. It was very hard to believe, because he is still extremely active and lives in an apartment for senior citizens (but he gets out a lot because of his amazing health). :eek:

Myself, my own (paternal) grandpa is still alive and he turns 90 later this year. My paternal grandma is still alive, too and she turned 80 in November. They both still live in their original house that they brought in 1955. Only recently, my grandpa has had to start using a cane, but he doesn't need to use it too much yet.

[spunkygirl]

Originally posted by Cashodeen
65 is the accepted age for being a senior citizen right? That's the age I always associate it with. But I still think of 65 is jivin'. I don't really ever think of people as old until 85. Heck, some people even seem young then! I know my grandpa did.

I would say 65/70, my dad is 57 and he doesn't seem like a senior citizen to me :eek: I mean my goodness he travels on business every week, he's very active :D

My uncle hit 55 a few years ago and was laughing about how "now he can get discounts at restaurants and things" cause he's a senior citizen :lol:

[Fleet]

Currently, the average life expectancy for men is 74, for women, 79. About 20 years ago, it was 72 for men and 78 for women.

As for the age to consider someone a senior citizen, I would say it depends on the person. But, in general, I choose 70 and over.

[Rhiannon]

55

[Hollow]

haha. i took one of those stupid 'how old will you live to be' quizzes and it says i'll live to be 69 because im so lazy and i dont exercise :lol:

[barwars]

Your own preference.
If you want to be a senior at 55 -- go ahead, not my problem.

But if you feel you've still got a lot of life in ya, and you dont think you're a senior until your 80 -- thats fine too.

[*Pleasant Tomorrow*]

When they stop feeling young :)

[*Pleasant Tomorrow*]

Originally posted by barwars88
Your own preference.
If you want to be a senior at 55 -- go ahead, not my problem.

But if you feel you've still got a lot of life in ya, and you dont think you're a senior until your 80 -- thats fine too. Yeah, but you get cool discounts and stuff...so everyone would be claiming to be a senior :nod:

[MandieR1980]

65, my dad is gonna be 54 in Sept I think he'd be devastated if someone called him "a senior citizen"

[crystals]

70.

[sara]

I voted for 65. My dad just turned 55 and I don't think of him as a senior citizen just yet.

[Michael [hXc]]

Some senior discounts start at age 50, but that's not senior. It's to get business. The baby boomers' buying power is very strong. Anyway, I took a quiz How Long Will You Live and it estimates I'll live to 82.

[LucyFan]

65, I think, is the right age to be considered a senior citizen.

[Polniaczek033]

70+