I Am for an Art: Claes Oldenburg on His 1961 âOde to Possibilitiesâ. By Claes Oldenburg. âApparently, it has survived,â says Claes Oldenburg about his most famous piece of writing. I Am For â¦ was written in 1961 for the catalogue of an exhibition at Martha Jackson Gallery called Environments, Situations, Spaces. While itâs been dubbed a manifesto, Oldenburg insists itâs not.
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.
The US Census bureau defines elderly as 65+, and most other US Government programs use this definitition, with the notable exception of Older Americans Act programs, which define elderly as 60+. (Most adults I know over the age of 60 or 65 prefer not to use the word elderly at all, with any age range definition.)