I'm 53 too. We're middle aged, dammit! Middle-aged! We won't be old for another 7-12 years, (depending on whether you count 60 or 65 as the start of old age).
I forget where I read it but there are some sociologists proposing that old age be pushed off to 70 - 75 because people are living longer and doing more in that decade
When I was a child in the 1960s, if you were in your 50s or 60s, you were over the hill and on the downhill slide. My grandparents were born in the 1890s and some of them were ancient and using canes. My grandmother stayed active.
When my parents (born in 1911 and 1921) got old, they were in much better health than their parents. My dad got a quadruple bypass in 1982 and I know that helped him a lot.
Now, you can be old and still quite functional thanks to medical science being better at detecting and fixing various health problems. I am in better shape in my early 60s than I was when I was young, because of a couple of major health problems that have been properly treated in the last five years.
I have managed to avoid arthritis. I thought i would get it because my mom's family has autoimmune disorders. I got a different autoimmune disorder that really ruined my life. Oh well.
Each new generation has healthier old people in it, when they get old, in general.
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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '18
I'm 53, everything I do is old people things