Have we stopped ageing?

Glad you all agree, it's not just me feeling my age! I'm sure we are, on the whole, fitter and healthier than people of our age a generation or two ago, but in ten years we have aged .... well, something close to ten years. Our life expectancy may be creeping up, but there isn't necessarily a slowing down of all the ageing processes at the earlier stages.

I am another one who reached my three score years and ten reasonably fit and healthy. Then it all seemed to fall apart, heart attack, pneumonia, arthritis, knee replacement etc. I have been retired since 2003, and know I just could not have carried on working. Like many others I tire easily and often need a snooze in the afternoon. If the "olds" go on working and filling positions, how will the younger generation fare in the job market?

At 60 I had no health problems whatsoever, but on reaching my 70s I developed several age-related ailments. I am glad I am not expected to work full time! I feel for those for whom the age for retirement seems to be moving away from them!

Yes, I heard the broadcast and thought it was b*****it.

I am fortunate I am ageing well physically, but what I have noticed from around the age of 60, is a gradual decline in stamina. I was always very much a duracell bunny always on the go when everyone else had stopped, but no longer, I am the bunny with the really cheap less powerful battery.

A late night or a short night and I am totally exhausted the next day, a very busy day and the same again. Sometimes an exceptionally busy day will knock me out for the following two days.

I think the actuary was probably not 60 herself, or she wouldn't have said what she did say.
70 is not the new 60 at all. We may look younger than our parents generation and think younger, but the bodily things let us down.I cannot do what I did easily ten years ago.

9 pm is late ann!! We've had middle daughter and her two under sixes here for a week and I am totally jiggered. We do wake up very early - out of habit.

I tend to agree that we stay younger for longer - mostly!! DH only stopped working full time in November last year and he is now 72.

Today's 70's may be like previous 60's but I am able to tell you that at 80 I am mostly k*******d.I have arthritis in several joints, going upstairs is very hard, I do still love a bath occasionally but need a stool to climb in and out.
My appetite has waned but that is ok because my love of cooking is also going.
I cannot walk very far but loved walking 10 years ago.
My hearing and sight are still good, I have all my own teeth , it is the rest which is wearing out.
Oh have I mentioned being ready for bed at 9pm every night?
It wasn't an 80 year old who compiled those statistics, but I do think I was pretty good at 70.

I suppose what i am trying to say is we generally dont feel as old As past generations, and still expect, health notwithstanding, to carry on doing what we have always done. I must have missed the bit about working longer/employment. Having started full time work straight after my 15 th birthday, and having saturday and holiday jobs since 13, i think i have done enough to enjoy retirement now.

I heard it too. Its like 60 is the new 50 etc but taking it up to 70 being the new 60. Soon it will be 90 being the new 80, actially i think it is already.
Certainly times have changed with 50 and 60 year olds not being or seen to be old as in generations past, but yes there is still the odd ache and pain to deal with as we age, but generally i would say as i too approach 70, its a shock to realise quite how old i am. Even if i dont feel it. No getting away with being late middle age anymore methinks.

I couldn't have put it better! Totally agree.