The period in life of active retirement, following middle age.
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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
third ager
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.
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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.