old age
Life's final chapter
Old age is the final stage of life, when a person has lived many years and shows the physical and mental effects of aging.
The threshold varies—some mark it at retirement age, others at 70 or 80.
Old age carries associations of decline and frailty but also wisdom and experience: She took up painting in her old age.
He's saving for old age.
- agingGrowing older over time
- retirementLeaving the workforce permanently
- longevityDuration of existence
- seniorHigher in rank
- sixtiesNumbers sixty through sixty-nine
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- agingaging process, aging body, aging workforce, aging parents, biological clock
- age groupsgenerations, life stages, adults, children, teenagers
- age-related termschildhood, adulthood, infancy, toddler years, puberty
- development stagesearly stage, late stage, infancy, childhood, alpha
- Human Developmentgrowth, heredity, aging, genetics, puberty
- life circumstanceschildhood, adulthood, adolescence, parenthood, widowhood