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KING HENRY IV, part II, act 11l, scene 2, line 41.2. Clearly another dividing age might have been chosen-perhaps age 60, 62, 67, or 70-but age 65 is generally iaken as the beginning of old age, at least in social policy legislation, and was convenient in terms of the availability of statistical data.In any case, the basic conclusions of the analysis in this article are insensitive to changes of a few years in the boundary.Later in this article, the periods before and after age 65 will be divided into a number of narrower age categories. 30.See Waldron, Why do Women Live Longer Than Men?, 2 J. HUMAN STRESS 2, 19 (March, June 1976).31.
James W. Vaupel (Thu,) studied this question.