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I'm only 58 but my husband is 60 and a lot of my friends are in their
sixties - with really elderly parents still alive to worry about in many
cases. There are clearly two groups: the active younger pensioners - baby
boomers and pre-baby boomers of about 60 or 70 and the truly elderly: 70
plus perhaps?
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From: "Bob Rust" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 12:03 PM
Subject: [MASSOBS] Age
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I first posed this question back in 2000. "Do contributors over sixty object
to being referred to as elderly?" When I read the papers and watch TV news I
keep finding that I belong to one of two blocks. I am either elderly or a
pensioner. The former is a subjective judgement often used censoriously; the
latter is an indisputable fact. Neither are collective nouns or titles. The
annoying thing is that both seem to be used as synonyms for stupid or
reactionary. To take a quote from a recent piece about post office closures.
"Elderly pensioners need to be able to go and draw their pensions in cash.
At their age they can't be expected to cope with bank accounts". Gwyneth (my
daughter) said to me "I don't know who they are talking about when they say
elderly. It's certainly not you or Simon's Mum and Dad, certainly not my
friend of your sort of age".
To add to this similar comments are now being made regarding the bank's
proposal to phase out cheques. Now it is not bank accounts but cards and
online banking.
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