middle age
Sign in to saveAlso known as middle aged, middle adulthood
period of age beyond young adulthood but before the onset of old age
Research
5,376,833 papers- The cellular basis for middle-age spread.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025
- Address Cardiovascular Health in Middle Age: Time to Remove the Blindfold.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2023
- Middle-age lung screening for everyone who has smoked.The Lancet. Oncology · 2023
- Jogging in middle age.The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1985
- Subjective Age and Its Correlates Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults.International journal of aging & human development · 2019
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- age of a person
- Followed by
- old age
- Follows
- young adult
Show 5 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Middle age
- Commons category
- Middle-aged people
- minimum age
- 40
- maximum age
- 60
- has characteristic
- conservatism
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Encyclopedic overview
Middle age (or middle adulthood) is the age range of the years halfway between young adulthood and old age. The exact range is subject to public debate, but the term is commonly used to denote the age range from 40 to 64 years.
Overall
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “middle age” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.