{"id":28429,"date":"2016-11-02T15:18:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/?p=28429"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:50:04","slug":"how-old-is-old-ask-millennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/how-old-is-old-ask-millennials\/","title":{"rendered":"How old is old? Ask Millennials."},"content":{"rendered":"

In April, the AARP (American Association of Retired People) published a video challenging people’s perceptions of old age : how old is old? What can or can’t an older person do? Millennials and Baby boomers have different answers to these questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“So maybe… 40 is old?”<\/h2>\n

Several Millennials from age 19 to age 33 were asked a very simple question : what age do you consider to be old?<\/strong> Their answers might be perceived as a little bit more surprising ; one participant said : “I feel like 30 is the new 20, so maybe… 40 is old?<\/em>” All other participants named ages ranging from 40 to 50.<\/p>\n

They were then asked to demonstrate their perceptions of old age : first by imitating an older person crossing the street, with many shuffling their feet, hunching forward, brandishing imaginary canes.. Then by texting like a senior, to which many responded by putting on imaginary glasses, frowning with confusion… Then to more physical activities, with push-ups and and jumping jacks, with much trembling limbs and out-of-breathness.<\/p>\n

“An age that I might consider to be old now might be… A hundred”<\/h2>\n

The young participants then met several people aged 55 to 75, immeasurably old by the Millennials’ standards. Each Millennial\/ Boomer pair was given two minutes to teach each other something they were good at : gym, dancing, boxing… At the end of those two minutes, the Millennials were asked the same question: what age do you consider to be old?<\/p>\n

“Probably 80 or 90<\/strong>. He [her 66-year-old partner] can just do everything that I told him to do<\/em>“; said one participant. “An age that I might consider to be old now might be… A hundred<\/em>“, said another, laughing and adding that\u00a0“There’s no way she [her 70-year-old partner] is old.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

“There’s so many things that I still wanna do, there’s so many things I \u00a0can do, as long as I’m growing and learning, then age doesn’t matter”<\/em>, Parvati, 70, reflected.<\/p>\n

“When people start stopping, that’s when they start getting old”<\/em>, concluded 75-year-old Georges.<\/p>\n

Watch the AARP’s video, “Millennials show us what ‘old’ looks like”:\u00a0<\/strong>
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