"The new middle": in the modern world 60 years - not retirement Bashny.Net

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The pension can be very close, and your knees may have already started to creak. But if you're 60, you - a middle-aged man.

Scientists say time we live longer, we should think again about who we refer to really old people, because we have to take into account the overall duration of our lives.

Experts believe that it is not necessary to think of myself as an old man, is the length of your life does not reach the limit, which is 10-15 years less than the life expectancy of your fellow countrymen and women.



If old age begins later, and the average age should do the same. Researcher Dr. Sergei Shcherbov, said: "Age can be measured has lived for years or taking into account the time left to live. What we previously perceived as old age, with the passage of time has changed. Those who are now 60 years old, I would call middle-aged people. But two hundred years ago, 60-year-old was really a very old man ».

Previously, he has shown that many people who have been classified as old, in fact, just as strong as the young. For example, a 65-year-old American-educated grip strength was like a 60-year-olds with low levels of education. "From the point of view of their physical strength they are younger than 5 years", - said Shcherbov.

In a recent study, which was funded by the European Research Council, he calculated that if we fix aging at some certain point, the proportion of which make up the elderly in society will increase with the increase in life expectancy.

But if you move the point at which a person begins to be considered old, taking into account at the same time greatly increased life expectancy, the proportion of elderly people in society in the long run will be reduced. Shcherbov added that the increase in life expectancy contributes to modern medicine, education, improved sanitation, diet and lifestyle.

In an article for the journal PLOS ONE, he writes that understanding at what point people really begin to age, can become a key point for all kinds of economic calculations, including government decisions in the area of ​​pension and health care costs calculations.

"Health care costs depend on age, but they are much higher in the last years of his life. And when its duration increases, these past few years are pushed further and further - says Shcherbov.

via www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3040338/Why-60-new-middle-age-longer-healthier-lives-means-aren-t-classed-elderly-70.html