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I'm going to be 78 this year and a friend said she really felt old when she hit 80...she's 83 now I believe. I have a very active almost 95 yr old bridge friend who walks circles around me. She never had joint replacements...if I could take it back I probably would. This replacement really did me in.
Save your money....living longer takes money.
My husband is 67 and complains about his knee replacement (three in the same knee, they screwed it up the first time!) and how old he feels, you are not alone. He also had a hip replacement last year. Hang in there, enjoy doing what you can
If one can get thru life with their own parts, they should...one doesn't know how much worse they can be after replacements are said and done. I've talked to so many and so many horror stories. People start to decline often after these surgeries.
I turn 40 in a few months. I don't think I'm old. When I was 20, 40 seemed unbearably ancient, but I still feel like I did when I was 30, except with confidence added in.
Years ago, a coworker told me the 20s and 30s were awful, but that she was loving her 40s. That seemed far-fetched then, but I am believing it now!
My father is 84. He was playing tennis regularly until a few years ago, and he still goes dancing a couple times a week. He loves new technology and is always playing around on his iPad.
I think 75 qualifies as "old" but I still plan to be pretty active then.
I think in general I agree with 80ish. Although I know very "old" younger folks and "young" older folks so a lot depends on the individual.
I agree ^. I had double knee replacement 2 years ago at age 55 and wish I had done it several years earlier. My quality of life is much better and I walk and ride my bicycle for exercise. I called out from work for the first time in more years than I can count 3 weeks ago when my appendix ruptured.
I plan to stay active many more years
As you age, you keep moving up the "old" mark. When I was 18, I thought 30 was old. When I was 30 I thought 50 was old. When I was 50, I thought 70 was old. Now that I am 70, I think 80 might be old. In 10 years I will probably readjust that number.
I am in my fifties, and am old. COmpared to a 20-something who "has the world by the tail" I am old.
I feel old, even though in my mind I am just as I was in my 20s. No, that's not true, I am older and wiser and have more knowledge than I did when I had the world by the tail.
And my arthritic joints, bad back, hip and knees tell me I am old.
And I cannot "keep up" with the younger set, nor do I have any desire to.
Sure, sometimes I dye my beard and am about to color my hair to hide the graying, but i wouldn't trade this wracked body for my 20 year old self anymore.
I am slower and as such, can enjoy things more, even if I cannot do anymore what I could in my 40s.
The age that youth "ends" can vary tremendously by the individual, but it's generally sometime between the ages of 30 and 50. I'm active and take care of myself and actually feel better now in my early 40s than I did in my early 20s (when I admittedly didn't take that great care of myself and was overweight). Still no gray hair or too many wrinkles, either. My sister who is younger than me looks 15 years older than me, but she is overweight and has never been very health conscious.
My dad is almost 70 and has always been health conscious. He still jogs 3 miles every morning and just the other weekend helped me move some very heavy furniture.
Exercise and nutrition goes a long way to keeping you young.
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