• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    13 days ago

    My dad told me recently, when he started practicing medicine the old people with heart failures he was treating were often born in the late 1800s, but now those are all dead, and the people he’s treating are more likely to have a birth years that are around 1940-1950. Which is also starting to become uncomfortably close to his own, 1960.

    • chetradley@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      A given person’s definition of “old” is usually about 15 years older than they are. My boss is 65 and calls 70 year olds “young”.