![]() Read: What happens when we all live to 100? “I wouldn’t say is old,” says Susan Jacoby, the author of Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age, “but I know it’s not middle age-how many 130-year-olds do you see wandering around?” Overall, two-thirds of the Marist Poll respondents considered 65 to be “middle-aged” or even “young.” These classifications are a bit perplexing, given that, well, old age has to start sometime. ![]() It seems that the closer people get to old age themselves, the later they think it starts. ![]() Sixty percent of the youngest respondents-those between 18 and 29-said yes, but that percentage declined the older respondents were only 16 percent of adults 60 or older made the same judgment. It’s a label that people tend to shy away from: In 2016, the Marist Poll asked American adults if they thought a 65-year-old qualified as old. Of course, calling someone old is generally not considered polite, because the word, accurate though it might be, is frequently considered pejorative. That’s how life progresses: You’re young, you’re middle-aged, then you’re old. Once people are past middle age, they’re old.
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