Can there be a more meaningless term than 'the over 60's'? Yes, the term can be easily applied to any person above that age - but what does it actually tell us that is of much practical use? Age is no indicator of health or personality, of activity levels or financial stability. Neither does an age grouping reveal a person's interests - unless it's the under 5's, when life mostly revolves around food, sleep, playing, parents and getting the hang of walking and talking. While life for the 5's to 16's age group tends to revolve around school, already more diversity is apparent. The teenage world of angst, obsessions and first loves are, obviously, very different from, for example, a thirty year-old's ambitions to buy their own house. No-one would lump together everyone under the age of 40 as one social group having similar needs and interests. So why do this with the over 60's? Most 60 year-olds are part of the work force and will rem