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you would need to define what elderly meant before you could determine whether someone fits into that category or not.
The way the retirement age is defined is against life expectancy. Really, women should retire a couple of years later than men because on average they live a couple of years longer
So, retirement age is set to provide the average man 5 years before they drop. Any more, and it puts too much pressure on the pension system, which is why it is increasing by a year here and there.
So, if we are strictly looking at averages, 65/66 is most certainly where you could consider the average person elderly. The fact that some go on for a couple of decades after that point basically means they were lucky outliers
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