Gen Z think old age begins at 53 – so I have only three months to go | Zoe Williams

Each generation has a different view on when old age gets under way, but if my kids’ generation is correct, time is about to catch up with me ... For boomers, old age begins at 75, according to a new survey, while gen X considers the start date of decrepitude to be 70, and millennials are a little stricter, at 63. These are all reasonable positions, and then you get to gen Z, who know nothing about anything: they say it’s 53. By coincidence, I’d been thinking about this anyway at the weekend,...

By Zoe Williams