{"id":21674,"date":"2017-07-19T17:27:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T16:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21674"},"modified":"2017-07-19T17:27:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T16:27:59","slug":"i-am-no-longer-old-according-to-a-proposal-from-the-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21674","title":{"rendered":"I am no longer old &#8211; according to a proposal from the Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the day that my 41 year old son had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-40658774\">the news<\/a> that he will have to work until he is 68 before receiving a state pension, I read of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jul\/18\/japan-doctors-propose-raising-retirement-age-to-75\">the proposal<\/a> that someone of my age (69) is no longer to be termed old.<\/p>\n<p>In Japan, a joint committee of the Japan Gerontological Society and the Japan Geriatrics Society has suggested that, since so many citizens are living so much longer, \u00a0people aged 65-74 should be classified as &#8220;pre-old age&#8221;, while those between 75-89 would be termed &#8220;old&#8221; and those aged 90 and above would be described as &#8220;super-old&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Whether I am termed old or not, I do feel rather privileged and have written some observations on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/sixties.html\">&#8220;Why It&#8217;s Fun To Be In One&#8217;s Sixties In Britain&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day that my 41 year old son had the news that he will have to work until he is 68 before receiving a state pension, I read of the proposal that someone of my age (69) is no longer to be termed old. In Japan, a joint committee of the Japan Gerontological Society [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21674"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21680,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21674\/revisions\/21680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}