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The average life expectancy for Americans is 79. In the US at least we define "senior citizen" as over 60 (legally and for healthcare), that seems like a reasonable age for elder to start.
you seriously think that the majority of people should become elders?
Americans over the age of 65 represent less than 20% of the population. The group of people 60 to 64 is 6.5% of the population. That's not even a quarter of the population.
As to your question, yes. Even if it was 90% of the population that was 60+. being an elder, senior citizen, a member of the grandparent generation, olds, or whatever you'd like to call them has more to do with the individual's age than how many of them there are.