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Article: Senior Citizens
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- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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SENIOR CITIZENS
Elderly persons, usually more than sixty or sixty-five years of age.
People in the United States who are more than sixty years of age are commonly referred to as
senior citizens
or
seniors.
These terms refer to people whose stage in life is generally called old age, though there is no precise way to identify the final stage of a normal life span. People are said to be senior citizens when they reach the age of sixty or sixty-five because those are the ages at which most people retire from the workforce.
U.S. law and society recognize the special needs of senior citizens. The most important aid to senior citizens is the social security program. More than twenty-five ...