Advocacy Group: Zinfandel Advocates and Producers (ZAP) is a nonprofit association that organizes seminars, educational programs and wine tastings across the U.S. to promote Zinfandel and its high quality reputation.
A recent New York Times story calls a 69-year-old woman elderly. Philadelphia Metro considers 70 to be elderly. When NPR ran a story recently about a 71-year-old midwife, some readers objected to the word elderly in the original headline.
They are reporting what demographers refer to as their age at last birthday . In that sense, age is always rounded down in demography, so that age reported as 35 years old really means that the person is somewhere between 35.0 years and 36.0 years. The measurement of age at last birthday can be contrasted with measures of exact age.