Recently released data for the first six months of 2024 from Toronto Public Health has found that the median age of death for women experiencing homelessness in the city is just 36.
In 2022, unhoused women who died in Toronto were on average 42 years old. That number was 43 in 2023.
The median age at death for men experiencing homelessness in the first half of 2024 was 50.
Torontonians residents, in general, live much longer with men typically dying at the age of 78 and women at the age of 85, according to 2022 data.
36 is not what I think of as middle aged. It’s young. And this is the median, so half are dying younger.
30-60 is middle aged.
There is nothing "young " about 38 which is above the median
According to whom? Fifty years ago, 40 was considered the lower bound for middle age, and if anything, the number should have gone up since then, not down.
i according to a concept like a median… if you are above the median you are not “young”
I would guess your first language isn’t English. “Middle age” is not a statistical term, but a traditional one that arises from dividing adults into three roughly equal-sized age groups:
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The lower bound will never drop below the traditional 40 years, although there has been some argument from time to time about raising it to match increases in life expectancy.
i think there is some weird cope in there lol
kinda like “middle class”