Complaint Answered

I have had a complaint on something I said in one of my posts that I wanted to answer. If you will remember about a week ago in my <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000064.html#more">When it Rains it Pours</a> post I made the following statement. <br />n<br />n<i>I sometimes wonder what a person is to do with there stubborn elderly parents </i><br />n<br />nMy mother didn't mind being called stubborn, since there was no complaint there, but she did object to being called elderly. She says elderly is over 80 and she hasn't reached that yet. I have been racking my mind trying to come up with a better word to use than elderly. I have considered retired but I am not to sure. Does anybody out there have a better term I can use? I would appreciate the help.<br />n<br />n<b>In this part of the world it is considered a ground for complaint if a man&acirc;