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Definition of third age in English: third agenoun the third ageBritish The period in life of active retirement, following middle age. Example sentencesExamples - As the babyboomers embark on the third age, 50 has become the new 40.
- The website is a kind of portal for those entering the third age.
- I've always maintained that, on moving into the third age, it's much better not to be a retired whatever and that, rather, one should aim to become something else, something new.
- Increasingly, with the nest empty, they go on to a lively third age and beyond.
- I was less than six months into my retirement, still adjusting, still seeking the occupation that would form a new career in my third age.
- My observation, based on personal experience, is that some of the things you lose as you approach your third age are no real loss at all.
- But maybe this idea simply reflects the low expectations and narrow opportunities we've created for individuals in the third age.
- The third age is becoming a second teenage with the over 50s seeking experiences and identities previously thought unbecoming of someone their age.
- The problem is easy to state - with life expectancy at 80 or over most of us can anticipate having a third age of 20 or more years.
- You might think the third age would have removed something of the new age, at my age, but you'd be wrong.
- And if there's one thing life is teaching me in my third age it's the absolute priority of gathering rosebuds as I may.
- That was when I decided my occupation in my third age was to be that of a writer.
- He is now, in his third age, a military historian specialising in the pitched battles of the Second World War.
- Many hope that the new age of retirement - the third age - will bring other opportunities and rewards - study, travel, volunteer work to name a few, not to mention health and access to the latest medical advances.
- Of course, there's still a long way to go before the greys prevail over a media steeped in negative representations of the third age.
- Rosemary agrees, advising pensioners to enjoy the so-called third age.
- Those entering on their third age need to be able to get out and to extend their life experience just as much as youngsters do.
- It also turned out that the welfare state could not cope with the huge health costs in the third age - the age of physical decline.
- We know that we're going to have to start putting sums away soon or else we'll have a very miserable third age indeed.
- It sensitizes designers and engineers to consider the needs of the population entering the third age of life.
Derivatives noun British In the discourse of the so-called third and fourth age, the third ager is often defined to be an active consumer of technology. Example sentencesExamples - A growing number of schools are responding to the academic needs of third agers by offering programs that enable nontraditional students to complete degrees amidst careers and other obligations.
- The third photograph is of a retired railway man who took up a new life as a volunteer in a museum in Austria staffed almost entirely by third agers.
- The typical third ager is also educated, with 86 percent having been to college.
- And the prospect of young-at-heart ‘third agers’ viewing York as their playground is beguiling, if a little scary.
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