"hugh" ] wrote in message
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In message , David WE Roberts
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I suppose that to nippers at Uni, anyone over 50 is "old" :-(


According to the powers that be anyone over 50 is an "Elderly Person"


Do you have a reference for that?
Google seems to think that you are an 'elderly person' when you reach
state retirement age.

If you get involved with issues affecting older people you will soon find
out.
Your local council will probably run a Senior persons network for those
over 50 - or they may have off-loaded it by now to a third sector
organisation. All part of the Strategic Partnership/Local Area Partnership
type crap.


There may be a lot of difference between a Senior Person/Citizen and an
Elderly Person.
It is very difficult to pin down a definition, but Age Concern talk of
'older workers' when they are discussing people who want to work beyond
retirement.
Elderly is often linked with infirm, and certainly to me implies people who
are starting to fail physically and possibly mentally and becoming frail.
Certainly someone of 50 may qualify for some benefits aimed at the more
mature citizen but much of this is probably marketing led.

If you are elderly at 50 what comes next?

50 = elderly
60 = really really old
70 = completely decrepit
80 = ARE YOU STILL BREATHING?? I SAID ARE YOU....oh, forget it.
90 = Sir Cliff - you look so well preserved.
100 = "You've been on an index linked pension for 40 years? You absolute
Ba**ard!!"

Cheers

Dave R
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No plan survives contact with the enemy.
[Not even bunny]

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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