Is 70 The new 50?

Oh, I hope so. If 70 is the new 50, then I'm still in my 40s.

My life changed in my 50s, then again in my 60s, and I am hoping for better fitness and mobility in my 70s. I am remaing positive, but I’m certainly not the girl I was.

hope you are home soon Bijou
DH said he would have gone crazy ( hospital stay) without the iPad.Much better than gazing at tv.

70 is the new 18 when some of us school friends have a meet-up. My maternal grandma who would have been early 60s when I was born was always an old lady. Going to the beach she wore 60 denier stockings, lace up black shoes, hat and a large handbag. She never went out without a hat.

I am 73 and I seem to have energy to do things now than I did at 50. I've retired and I'm loving life spent with my darling husband, family and friends.

70 is the new 35 in my book. I am only 81 and still feel about 40. Do not call me old until I am about 160!
Live long and prosper.

I had a party to celebrate being in my 70th year and found I was wearing a matching dress to my 8yr old GD's albeit in a larger size. Both from joules.
Unfortunately that's where the likeness stopped as she was climbing trees while I was being sat in a comfy chair sipping prosecco.

CardiffJaguar -

I’m thirty five and I feel absolutely ancient

I was the original poster and it was meant to be light hearted. However, I'm comforted by all the fit and active 70+ posters out there. By the way I'm 70 myself.

Great thread Sebstar!!

It depends on what you were like at 50. In some magazines 50 year olds are downsizing and going on cruises.

I'm reading a book on depression because of a dear friend and the author maintains that believing in anti ageing is a sure step in the direction to age-related depression.
First accept the passage of time and make the best of it and do not indulge in nostalgia or try to avoid the truth about ageing.
At 50 you can look forward to another 30 years and at 70 - well 15 if you are lucky but probably a good 10 years or only one year. Its this uncertainty which is the difference between 70 and 50 and no matter how good you look you can't get away from the truth. At 70 you are on the 'home straight' and actually it makes for a comfortable life.
I for one would not like to be 50 again.

I met up with some college friends a few days ago and we're now either about to hit 70 or are 70 - and we haven't changed a bit

I found 50 an awfully depressing age. 70 was much better as I felt free to do what I liked - stiff joints permitting!

MargaretX I found your post quite depressing. I didn't mean that 70 being the new 50 meant we still had 30 + years to live but that 70 felt more like your 50s as in having a younger attitude and a more modern dress sense compared to our parents/grandparents. My grandmother was 48 when I was born and she always seemed like an old women compared to 40 odd year old women today. Of course in the past women had a harder life and not many labour saving devices not to mention many children. No-one knows how long they have to live whatever age you are.

Yes I found it depressing too! Don't like to think about how much time I've got left. None of us knows anyway.

I wasn’t depressed by your post Margaret.
I found it interesting. Depression amongst older people is quite common I think, and it’s rather sad to think of people spending their last years regretting the past and wishing they were in their 20’s or 30’s and how much worse life is now than then.
Being grateful for, and enjoying what we do have, and accepting the things we can’t change, rather than railing & fighting against them, is the key to contentment, I think.

I think we are on the same wave length jane - well put.

Thank you gagagran

I am in my early 70s and am in a new relationship. I feel distinctly like a teenager!

Generally speaking we are healthier at 50plus than our parents thanks to medical advances. Attitudes to age have changed too and ' fashion ' including hair style is less ' age related.

Yes, generally our generation has been healthier at 50 plus because of medical advances. Most of us are working full time up to our 60's but not in the cotton mills like my grannies and their friends. We also have our own teeth and access to decent hair cuts, we haven't lived through two world wars with all the losses that went with that.

One of the things I've enjoyed about my 60's has been realising that getting older can go hand in hand with becoming more accepting of those life issues we can't change. I remember my grandparents as being calm, kind, generous (with the little they had) and very ready to laugh. I hope I'm able to follow their lead.

I'm with Irenelily, - 80 is the new 60!