Recently, while following my nose across the internet, I stumbled across an interesting competition being run by an American grassroots anti-ageism organisation called Enrich Life Over 50 (ELO50).
The competition, is calling for people to nominate the terms and phrases that best describe the segment of the population aged 50 and over. There’s even $1,000 in prize money for the judges’ choice!
Now, this is not a new challenge, by any means. As a writer and thinker about ageing for well over a decade, I can confirm that this question of how we refer to people who are in the 60’s, 70s, 80’s, 90s and beyond is a fraught one.
The question has been posed, debated, dropped, revisited, set aside, argued hotly about and largely given up on (not necessarily in that order) many times and in many places and contexts.
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