I catch myself saying "an older woman" when describing someone and then realize they are probably the same age or maybe younger than my 70 (71 on August 23) years of age. I might be elderly when I retire? I am still doing adjunct teaching at a local community college, teaching two classes, sometimes three each semester. My sister passed last month at the age of 68. As she was living in Assisted Living, suffering from COPD and complications from diabetes, she seemed elderly.