It’s not how old you are that matters – it’s how you are old | Letters

Readers respond to a piece by Polly Toynbee in which she ponders how to put a number on old agePolly Toynbee’s article about old age neatly exposes the contradictions and paradoxes of contemporary old age (How old is too old? I’m 77 and I don’t know yet. But I will when I get there, 4 May). I am now in my 90th year, nimble of mind but disintegrating in body as cancer and heart conditions take their bows in the theatre of my aged body. Old age is no longer God’s time of th