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I read this term in an online article and it was referring to people. I assume
it means elderly people. Is there an age that one must be to use this term?
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At what age is a person considered to be シルバー?
It appears to depend upon which organization or company is assigning the
designation. Usually using 65 to 70 years of age as a lower threshold. This is
similar to varying ages for 'senior discounts' (in the US anyways).

[Here is a page](https://overage-job.jp/blog/senior-howold/) from NTT
Facilities Research, which lists a few terms regarding the elderly relative to
age.
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It literally means **silver** -haired (A beautiful expression of white hair
due to aging) people.

Also, this term is mostly used to sell something, so usually it means old but
somewhat healthy old people, mostly 65 to 75 years old in Japan IMO.
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