Youth ends at the age of…

All people enjoy the feeling of youth, which is powerful and vogue, even one day you have lost your hair, your teeth, and finally the youth, you still have the passion for youth. Youth is the most wonderful memory.

US actress Billie Burke is reported to have said that "age is something that does not matter unless you are a cheese".

However, an analysis of attitudes to ageing in the UK has suggested that youth ends at the age of 45.

Old age, according to respondents in several surveys, starts at 63 years of age--leaving 18 years of middle age.

The Department for Work and Pensions research studied the implications of age on equality and social cohesion.

The study considered five national surveys conducted between 2004 and 2008, with more than 6,000 respondents in total.

The findings showed that people's consideration of age differed when referring to themselves.

By their mid-30s, most respondents stopped describing themselves as young, and only by their mid-70s did they start calling themselves old.

There was some good news for the older generation, with more people saying they were more comfortable with a boss aged over 70 than with somebody under 30 being in charge at work.

But 26% of those asked said they had experienced ageism. This was not just the retired, but also those who were not working or who were not married.

"Nearly a quarter of respondents believed that people over 70 take out more from the economy than they put in," the report said.

However, this was less of an issue for people living in Yorkshire and the Humber than anywhere else in the UK.

The analysis found that people in the south-east of England were more likely to have experienced ageism.

This could affect the young and the old, the report concluded, and it also found that there was relatively little mixing between the age groups.

With people delaying their acceptance of being "old" as they went through life, the authors argued that there was evidence of people delaying the preparation for later life.

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