“At what age do you change from being young to middle-aged?”

I have to ask: is this about you thinking that you’re middle-aged, or about other people thinking you’re middle-aged?

There’s no specific age: any descriptor covers a range of ages. After 19, you’re a young adult. Maybe after 30, you’re an “adult.” After 40, you’re “middle-aged.” Here it gets soft: while after 50 is still “middle-aged,” what’s after that? Are you still middle-aged at 60, or are you elderly? Or do you have to hit 70 to be elderly?

The numbers aren’t that useful to me. More useful is the state of physical health.

• If you’re fit and athletic, you’re young.
• If you’re overweight and starting to get achy, you’re middle-aged.
• If you’re bent over, shuffling, and tired all the time, you’re elderly.

(edit: if you’re fit and athletic over 50, you’re varying degrees of fabulous. The older you get, if still fit, the more fabulous you get.)

Take a look at the Social Security Administration websites mortality table for your birth year. (It is different depending on when you were born and whether you are male or female.) Take the average life expectancy from that chart and divide by two. There you have your “middle-age”, which is just the halfway mark on your journey through life from birth to death.

For example, I was born in 1953 and am male. Thus my life expectancy is 84 years. Half of that is 42, which would be my middle age.

However, there are two additional things you should know. First, I am presently almost 68; and, so far, the better half of my life was after age 42, not before it. Secondly, my father, who is a World War II combat veteran, is still very much alive at age 94 and in good health. So much for those mortality tables and their predictions.

Take the life expectancy of the average person according to current mortality charts — that’s age 84 for men, and age 87 for women — and then divide those ages by two. Thus, you get the range of ages 42 to 44 as “middle age” for most people. The term “middle age” means halfway from birth to death. It has no other true meaning.

The reason a lot of people think that age 35 is middle age is because until quite recently people only lived to age 70. In fact, a few hundred years ago people typically only lived to be 50 years old or thereabouts and middle age was sometimes considered to be age 25.

C’est la vie.

I don’t know if there’s an official so this is strictly my opinion. 36. Man, at 36 is when you start to feel the slow down for sure and really average lifespan is what now? Twice 36 is 72 which is elderly and many die in their 70s. Most people live into their 80s these days with some into their 90s, even 100s. So 36 to 50 seems reasonable to call middle age. I guess ’til 60 really but it seems like it’s an even sharper decline at 50. It’s definitely all downhill from 50.

Yes, before anyone says it, as I said at the beginning, this is strictly my opion so speaking for myself. When I was young, it was so rare for anyone to make it to 100 that it made the news when they did. Now they do so routinely that we don’t find it all that remarkable.

At first glance, you may find the reasons ridiculous.

Whenever you or your partner have low libido, and you can not sleep together, you or he or she is middle-aged.

There is no age limit for starting middle age. In general, decreased appetite and increased boredom are the early symptoms of middle age.

When you can not make your spouse happy in bed.

Your middle age has been around for some time.

As long as a few leaves of your life remain green. Keep it.

Enjoy the rest of your life.

Do not pay attention, that

how old are you.

This answer changes for me every decade. I remember in my early 20’s when my older sister turned 30. I thought she was SO OLD. I remember crying when I turned 30. I remember waking up empowered and full of life when I turned 40. With each of these decade birthdays, “old” got pushed out, and so did middle age. I am in my mid-40’s and admit I am probably middle age, but for the most part my brain still thinks I am in my 20’s. My body might protest a bit, but it also remembers.

To answer your original question, I think 45 ish is middle age, and 80+ is Golden years. But ask me again when I am in my Golden years and I might have a different answer.

A person becomes ‘middle aged” when he or she turns 40.

You become “older” when you turn 80.

The period between 65 and 80, is a “transition age”.

A 94 year-young lady educated me on this subject.

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Dear writer,

I don't think you understand life just yet. Think of life. How long do people live? 80 years? 100?

For the sake of argument, let's assume you will live 100 years. Many more people make it there considered all of the technological and medical advances. Now, we will break 100 years down into the 4 seasons - spring, summer, fall and winter.

The first 25 years are like the spring season. Everything is young and tender, like the little buds that sprout on the trees. The first flowers bloom. Many animals give birth in spring. Most of your book learning will end, and experiential learning will begin.

Human summertime lasts from 26 to 50. These are mature (but still very youthful) years. Trees come into full foliage, and little birds leave their nests. Most important life decisions should be finalized in the human summer.

Fall will come at you fast. The years 51 to 75 are human autumn. Hairs fall just like leaves on the trees. You will hopefully reach your peak earning years then settle into retirement by the end of fall (if you've made the right financial decisions.) This is normally when autumners welcome grandchildren! A stark reminder of how it felt to live in spring.

When winter shows up, you'll be between 76 and 100. If you've taken care of your health, you may still get around fairly well. But there will be no denying that things are much harder than they used to be. Hair begins to look like a dusting of winter's snow, and you'll long for a toasty fireplace to take your rest with. If you are very lucky, some great grandchildren may show up!

Well, we're at the end of our seasons. That 33 year old you were asking about isn't even half way through summer! Just a pup really. I hope this was worth the time I spent and that I've answered your question.

~Memaw 💐

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The average age in care/nursing homes is 85, average age of people. That means they would be between, approximately, 65 to 105.

When I was young, middle age was about 40, now it seems to be around 60.

I am nearing 70, and on my good days, I feel 21, on the bad days, I feel 110.

As the old saying goes - You are as old as you feel.

How old do you feel? You live in a really good and health place, you could see over the 100 mark. Who really knows.

As I have a terminal illness that will not terminate, my doctor thinks, the way I am surviving, I could live to be 100. I have survived nearly 30 years, when most go within 4 -8 years. It is in the mind if you think ill, you are, if you think there is nothing that makes me feel ill and I can cope with all that is thrown at me, I will cope a lot longer, than those who give in to this illness.

We are always in the middle of living our life..on a

daily basis…..Why limit your self to thoughts of your own death..because thats what your question is really asking..When are we going to die .

Live, eat healthy..

Take inventory of/on every aspect that your being possess…include the Good & bad. Good or Bad…include likes & dislikes and why(?,?,? ) then ask yourself why you diet out the good aspect, as if your going to gain weight on the goodness, an then ask yourself why you make a daily snack on the bad aspects as if its to is going to get you through the day until your 6 o'clock supper after a long hard days work…

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But by and by, we live or (wade through this speptic pool of unrighteousness), this ugliness as part of irritation, part of our sick source if entertainment or ingratitude, ungrateful part of a life that we as human-being allow to creap into out life…

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It seems reasonable to approach this question by considering average lifespan and then dividing that into stages. The most basic stages to consider include childhood, youth, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Average lifespan in developed countries is about 80 years. Many live beyond that, but this involves an additional stage of extreme old age. Childhood extends from birth to approximately the beginning of the teenage years and youth extends from the early teens to the early twenties. This leaves about a sixty-year period that can be divided into the remaining three stages. Simply dividing this span into equal periods would mean that young adulthood extends from the early twenties to about age forty. Middle age extends from about age forty to about age sixty, after which the transition to old age begins.

The middle age period obviously varies due to individual circumstances, but the period from age forty to age sixty seems to reasonably define a time of life when one is no longer young, but is not yet old.

At the ripe old age of 39 years, I think she may be classified as such! There have been reports of discrepancy with her factual age as her father, allegedly gave different birth dates. Either way, in the film business it might be a little too old for the A List Celebrity title. Personally, I do not consider women of any age middle-aged. It is how they are and present themselves which counts. As for MM, I have no regard for her whatsoever so she can be any age as far as I am concerned but will always appear the same to me. Someone who is underserving of all she has, who has no style or wherewithal. No beauty or class or anything which defines a person middle aged or not!

I’m 80 and I consider myself upper middle aged. I’m active, fairly strong, good posture, agile, and do not look my age. I’ve been told by an insurance co in a longevity questionnaire that I’ll live to be 101. I actually expect to live to be 113 so they’re only 12 years short. They just didn’t know it will be possible by then.

So it seems to me that middle age might span from age 30 to probably 80 with the medium being 55..?

I’m not exactly expecting to become decrepit at 81 but I did make some effort to stay healthier than most. So I’m probably ahead of the curve just a bit.

Life magazine did an article on aging decades ago. It said in less rhan 200 years there would be people who were 200 years old. Meaning they were already living. So they’d probably be in the 25–35 age group by now.

So I’m a little early but I’m happy. I think I’ve lived in the best years of human history to date. They might get better but it’s a toss up afai can see right now. lol

IMHO

Let's look at it from a perspective of a modern western nation. I'm Irish so I'll go by our standards. In Ireland as of 2022 a woman can expect to live to nearly 85 on average and a man to nearly 82.

At 50, you've on average 30 to 35 years left to live but half of the population will live longer. 25% will reach late 80s and even 90s.

This will only improve in coming decades as medicine and technology improve. Its possible that some people aged 50 today could live way past 100 thanks to the incredible medical and technological changes we can expect over the next 20 to 50 years.

What is middle aged? Well if we go by the exact middle of someone's life in 2022 without counting continued lifespan growth that would be 42. Now ask most 42 year olds if they are middle aged and they'll say hell no. Many are just starting families or have young kids. Some are studying a degree again or just climbing the career ladder.

Most people would say you are middle aged by late 40s and right throughout your 50s to early 60s. By 65 you're no longer middle aged to most people and more “old or mature adult" but not old in the elderly sense at all.

So by 50 you're certainly middle aged. A few years into that period of life. Fertility is low, you find it a little harder to lose weight when you work out hard, you may have a few new aches you didn't have in your 30s or 40s and your kids if you have them may well be teenagers or in college (though some will also have infants and kids under 10, a few more will have older kids because they had young pregnancies).

You aren't thinking of retirement yet. Unless you're in a very well paid job I'm which you've lots saved .. otherwise you're not near it. Working life here is until 65/66 (at which point you may claim your state pension) but it will probably rise near 70 by the mid 2030s as lifespan grows even more.

So you've 15ish years left in the workforce maybe a little less or slightly longer. That's a lot of working life. A lot.

You are probably paying your kids college bills or maybe slowly getting ready for that (if you have kids interested in college) though for some that may be nearer the age of 60).

MOST, but not all still aren't grandparents. They don't want to be either. They feel too young to be a grandparent. But some are and are happy being so when it happens. It's not their decision when it happens but for most it's not happened yet and may not for another 5 to 15 years.

You still dress fashionable. You walk into clothing stores and see items that pick your fancy. You can see clothing you'd wear that someone in their late 20s and their 30s might buy too. You won't be wearing teen clothing or early 20s as that doesn't usually flatter peope in their late 20s, never mind at 50.

Your mind is usually still sharp, you can still party, run, jump, climb, stretch and lift. You don't feel much different to 40 other than a few little things that don't bother too much in most people.

So yeah, 50 is middle aged. It's early middle aged. Getting to middle, middle aged. Middle middle aged would be mid to late 50s and late middle aged early to mid 60s.

By 70 most would consider someone old. An old or mature adult but not elderly. So at 50 you've near or close to two decades of middle aged and early old left.

50 year olds today tend to look and feel different to their parents at 50, many look 40ish still. Look at photos of their parents in the late 20th century .. they looked their age .. some looked late 60s. They just weren't as health conscious back then and considered 50 as well past it, plus they tended to dress in what was considered age appropriate which often added years.

So 50 in my view is middle aged. Old age begins near or around 70 and by late 70s to 80 you are elderly. By 90 you'd be considered very old/very elderly.

I'm not 30 yet, though pushing towards it and I consider I've decades of young life left. My parents are in their 50s, my mom just gone 50 and my dad mid 50s. They are active young people still and far from old. My mother still looks 42. My dad looks 50 not mid 50s.

I certainly don't see them as old and they don't see themselves to be so either. Maybe in 20 years I'll be getting more worried about them aging but by then I'll be my mother's age around now. Plus you've to consider by the time my parents are 70s lifespan on average could be near 90ish.

50 is young/early middle aged. Lots of living to do still. LOTS!!

Is 30 ‘middle aged’?

I’m not sure why a thirty year old is concerned about age categories. There’s so much to do entering your thirties.

Move forward with your career, seize opportunities and fulfillment.

Figure out where to live—new city, new state, region of the country, or another country altogether, apartment, condo, moving out of hometown or parents’ house.

Make decisions on relationships or partners, maybe settling into a life commitment and working to make it thrive.

Decide if you want a family, raise your young family, establish ties in a community.

Strengthen friendships. Keep people near who add something positive to your life, move on from those whose negativity damages you.

Establish the long-term basis of a healthy and balanced life, stay strong, fit, properly nourished and physically active.

I wouldn’t waste a minute trying to define yourself or others with age-related labels. Your very own life awaits you to shape it and live it.

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take.”
― Joseph Campbell

Recently, there has been a valid argument that middle age should be mid-thirties and not fifties because most people will die or completely retire in their seventies.

Half of seventy is thirty-five.

I agree, however, age zero is not the starting point of a functional or mature life.

I will say teenage is a point where a person gains a strong sense of I and ego, develops a strong perspective towards the past and future, and can see beyond the present moment. (Which isn't a great quality)

So, the starting point is around thirteen, and the ending point is seventy-five.

Forty-five is the right middle age.

The belief supporting this as a middle age is also that you are still too active to restart life, still in the realms of a youthful body and mind, yet experienced enough to not be affected by tiny jolts or impacts of life changes.

The storm of most turmoil and big changes in life, like career, marriage, and kids, has barely settled in the mid-thirties, and you suddenly realise that half of life is over isn't a useful thought, or is it?

Apart from that, left over thirty-five years of mature, conscious adult life is huge; it is a life in itself. Therefore, we can further delay mid-age to early fifties but not advance it to thirties.

Mid-age in thirties is not a realisation to live well but a heartbreaking feeling that may make one weak and vulnerable. It may bring an unnecessary rush towards life or fear of death or leaving behind the brighter side of life.

Mid-age has always had a negative connotation.

Now moving on to the next thought, why do we even need a middle age?

A human, alive and active, capable of handling or restarting life is as alive as anybody else; he may take a little more time to deal with life than a youth bursting with hormones, but we do have plenty of time, and that is complimented well with added maturity snd wisdom, so why have such demoralizing classifications?

I mean, the shape of your mind and body are mostly decided by your level of stress, fitness and genetics as well; some people are fitter at fifty than an eighteen-year-old lad.

If you are thirty-six, relax. You aren't old; it's just the start of forty years of a conscious and mature journey, and even five years of active life is enough to change the world around you.

Here I am, at 83, enjoying what my (departed, but treasured) friend Isaac Asimov called “Advanced Youth”.

Oh yes, I am displaying and enduring some of the infirmities and inadequacies which result from having used up many of my earlier capacities and competences, but still experiencing enthusiasms and enjoying new adventures. Discovering new worlds all the time.

Middle age arrives when one stops finding new adventures and exploring unfamiliar territories — and merely repeats previous pleasures and experiences, or at most becomes a spectator when exposed to something new or different.

Old age arrives when one’s range of experiences and activities begins to narrow, so that life becomes just repetitions of a steadily declining set of things one does or enjoys.

That has nothing to do with chronological age. It is a function of the person. For me, the narrowest times of my life occurred before age 39. By far the most exciting and enjoyable new adventures — as well as my worst and most devastating experiences — have occurred after the age of 40.

For many people, that is not true. There are some people for whom getting out of high school was the culmination of their youth. They soon got married, got a job, bought a house, and have not done anything significantly different ever after. For a good share of that group, old age set it around age 45, when their kids were all grown and gone, and every year thereafter has involved just doing over what they did before, but maybe with a new toy every so often.

Some people have found that their lives broadened, with new adventures, every year after they left high school. That’s what it was for me, except that the number and variety of new adventures increased more rapidly after I reached 40, than it did after I had passed 20.

Apparently you are close to the threshold of 40. I hope you too will find an increasing range of new interests, activities, ventures, personalities, and explorations in the years to come. The next 40 years, at least. That’s what we (Isaac and me and numerous others) mean by Advanced Youth.

We all hope that you find yourself entering Advanced Youth, lasting for decades past your 40th birthday.

I am 54. I am also divorced for 1 year and a half, after 30 years of marriage. I have written about the downsides before, of that situation- some loneliness, some sadness about the prospect of never having a partner again….but here, I want to write about the positive aspects.

I revel in being older. When younger, I felt so self conscious. People everywhere were looking at me. It felt so uncomfortable! Now, I walk in public, and so many people don’t stare at me! There’s some, but generally so much less that I can relax, feel less defensive, less self conscious. My eyes look out and study the world without it always just coming back onto me. My grandson went through this thing of wanting to give a super power to everyone in the family. He asked what super power I would like. I said, “I’d like to be invisible!” He said okay, but then he added that I can speak any language (well he gets his artistic license). I am just a middle aged lady, of no special interest, and can stop on the sidewalk and study the colors of a tree, without anyone pulling my attention away. I can pay attention to the wonderful sensation of the warm wind on my skin, or the sound of the birds singing, without being disturbed by others attention, nor by thoughts like, “Am I being correct? Would my husband approve of who I am being right now? How should I change to please him better? What do I need to be thinking about or doing for my kids? How can I improve myself? Get ahead in my career? Do better, be better…?”

I can just…be. I have no one to please, nothing I must do. When I arrive, I can take shower and not put on any make up, or even care what I wear, and eat whatever I want.

It feels like- if you have ever gone on a very long bike ride, and your legs feel like jelly, you are tired, and sweaty, and that last mile (or kilometer) is downhill? You are just coasting, the wind cooling your skin, and all you can think is “ahhh….”. That is what it feels like. I might die tomorrow. (I’m in good health and have no problems, but you never know- an accident, a stroke, whatever…) and if there is consciousness after death, I would say, wow! What a ride! That was crazy, and wonderful, but that last part? That was pure bliss!

On the assumption that you are asking a serious question, I respond. I call myself old because I am becoming aware of my fragility, my fallibility, my failing memory. My hearing is iffy, I have false teeth, and I have always needed glasses. I use a cane on good days, and my scooter the rest of the time. I have become the bionic grandmother.
At the same time, I feel that I think the same way I did when I was 37, or 57. (Thank heavens I am no longer 17 - but then all 17-year-olds are idiots!) Mostly, I look in the mirror in the morning and wonder where the old lady came from.
I have the same (or more) wonder about the planet, the same delight in doing small good deeds anonymously, and the same joy in life. Even when I hurt from the above problems.
And if it really matters, I was born in 1941.

I should have considered myself a middle-aged guy after 35ish. Instead, I finally admitted it at 50ish.

About a decade ago, finally, I reacted to it forcefully with the full intention of reversing some of the aging effects due to well, aging and a lot of had to do with "self-neglect."

What you want to mitigate - as soon as possible - is uncontrolled weight gain, dental/oral decay, muscle & bone loss, endurance loss, depression and anxiety, and so on.

There is a lot to do, and there is a lot you can do with diet and exercise to help and rejuvenate and enjoy a better life quality. The thing is that one should not wait too long, procrastinating, 'cause you may pass the point of no return.