<<In a message dated 15/07/2005 18:53:36 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jean, I beg to differ. My mother is only 62 and by no means elderly. My grandfather is 84, now he is elderly. I've noticed the trend here in Canada to declare that 60 is middle age, but that would only be if you lived to be 120. However, I just can't get my head around 62 being elderly. Just what is the definition of 'elderly', anyway. Heather At 09:06 AM 15/07/2005 +0100, Jean Nathan wrote: > I'm elderly (62),>> Jean, I'm with Heather here - you ain't elderly. You may qualify for all the goodies that senior citizens can have (travel help etc) but you ain't elderly. It's become the in thing to describe anyone who is of retirment age as being in the third age - ie childhood, adulthood, retirement simple because now when people retire or near it they are not the old people that their parents were. We aren't restricted anymore by wearing certain clothes at a certain age, or by eating certain things at a certain age because we loose our teeth later in life. My father who is 82 didn't become any older in his activities or lifestyle when he retired, nor did he do so when he went blind. It was when he fell out of a tree and bounced down the garden that he realised he couldn't do quite the same things as before - even then he tried to erect a garden fence and mostly suceeded (he did all the concreting and post installation and got a contractor to actually put the fence panels up) Regards Liz in London I'm back _blogging_ (http://journals.aol.com/thelacebee/thelacebee) my latest lace piece - have a look by clicking on the link or going to _http://journals.aol.com/thelacebee/thelacebee_ (http://journals.aol.com/thelacebee/thelacebee) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
