Elderly?

The Corona virus is reminding us about a lot of important precautions needed to avoid infectious diseases and also about basic terminology.

According to the scientific community, one of the group most at risk to contact the virus is the “elderly’.

This pigeon-holing of sorts begs the inevitable question: “Who falls in that category?”

The World Health Organization sets the threshold for elderly at 60, but since no one likes that, Americans segment this broad category into “young old” (60 to 74), “old old” (75 to 84) and “oldest old” (over 85).

For the moment, this segmentation works fine with me and will only get tweaking or amending when I’m close to turning 74!