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Originally Posted by jambutty
I don’t see “Pensioner” as being patronising, nor does it suggest feebleness and senility to me. My view of a pensioner is someone who has managed to retire from the daily grind of having to earn a living. Age doesn’t come into it.
A pensioner is a person who draws a pension usually but not limited to a retirement pension.
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Yes, I know the literal meaning of pensioner. What I mean is that the Press often uses the term to indicate a degree of pathos which I, personally, would not wish to have attributed to me. I have received 2 pensions since I was widowed, at the age of 53, but at that age I would not have been classed by the media as a "pensioner". I'm still the same person, albeit no longer running myself ragged running a home and a job, and no more frail or vulnerable, just 12 years older.