Elderly?

Elderly is someone who is five years older than me.

I also read the government are thinking of banning over 70s going to premier league football matches. But what about the over 70s going to lower league matches ie championship. Do they not matter.

I am 63. While I will admit to not being a spring chicken, I hate to be called elderly. To me, elderly is 75+. Before that maybe we can be "seniors".

Whichever way you look at it they're all out to see us off. Work until you drop---help out in the hope that you'll catch the virus, and drop. They've got a bloomin' cheek.

We're nuisances !

It’s a bit insulting isn’t it?

Sixty is by no means elderly.

I guess it was defined as such by a thirty something!!

To them fifty is elderly!!

duh! to the Government, or those civil servants who decide what the Government will do.

There is talk that the government will support, by law, those that switch their current jobs to help out the NHS albeit on a temporary basis. As my job will probably be on hold because of its nature I am interested in this, but certainly not medically qualified. I am
Also in my early 60s.....

Absolutely agree don’t forget the retired nurses they want to volunteer the very group they shafted.

I would love to stay home, but would my workplace pay me, and who would look after my very elderly mum and grandchildren? I suspect know one.

As I’m 60 and still have to do the daily grind, I’d be more than happy for them to decide now that I’m too vulnerable and give me my state pension today! Double standard governments.

When I worked in child health, it used to 'amuse' me that government spokespersons trumpeted how much it cost them to keep a child in care - and yet parents got only a fraction of that.

Exactly!WASPI and sandwich generation here.I would love to know how I can simultaneously protect myself as an 'elderly' person whilst caring for my very frail mum and grandchildren so DD can work in frontline healthcare.

Contradictions if it suits them!

Brilliant - thanks Lucca!

I said exactly the same?

Absolutely!

Very true - yet they expect retired doctors to volunteer in the crisis - funny that!

I’d been thinking the same myself.