What do you consider middle age now?

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

Once upon a time, it was 40. Now I think it's 50 I would think. No one refers to that anymore that I know of. What do you say/think it is now?

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

50......i am going on the 0 to 100 scale.

many people are living closer to 100 now (at least that is how it seems.)

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FrostyBabe1 · ‎05-09-2016

One year older than whatever my current age is.

~The more someone needs to brag about how wonderful, special, successful, wealthy or important they are, the greater the likelihood that it isn't true. ~

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

Forty-years-old.

kaydee50 · ‎02-07-2011

50 and old age 90.

shoesnbags · ‎03-10-2010

45

"Breathe in, breathe out, move on." Jimmy Buffett

ALRATIBA · ‎07-15-2016

I just checked and the 2020 average life expectancy in the US is 78.9 years.

So - is middle age half that? About 40 years old.

(I'm approaching the life expectancy number .... but parents lived into their 90s .... so I"m hoping ...._

Pearlee · ‎06-11-2011

Whatever age I am. 😄

Shepherd · ‎08-08-2017

60

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

Why do Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries, despite paying so much more for health care?

A short summary is that Americans suffer higher death rates from smoking, obesity, homicides, opioid overdoses, suicides, road accidents, and infant deaths. In addition to this, deeper poverty and less access to healthcare mean Americans at lower incomes die at a younger age than poor people in other rich countries.

https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low

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