Aria Bendix is the breaking health reporter for NBC News Digital.
How old is considered old? The answer to that question appears to be changing as people live longer, retire later and maintain higher levels of physical and mental health into their older years. A study published Monday suggests that people in their mid-60s believe old age starts at 75 — but the older people get, the later they think it begins.
, for instance, life expectancy declined during the COVID pandemic, from 79 years in 2019 to 76 in 2021 — whereas Germany’s life expectancy has been fairly consistent since 2014. Still, Smith said, the study offers insight into how people’s perspectives on aging change as they get older. “A lot of the work that we see in the literature is only taking a single snapshot of this phenomenon, a single point in time,” she said.
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