Why tag a vital source of knowledge, experience and potential by using the term "Elderly"? Why not use the term, "Elders", which envisions (to me anyway) that regardless of a chronological age, the individual is worthy of contributing to skill, knowledge and attitudinal development of those under their guidance.
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Patrick Wachholz
Dear Karl, if your question is pertinent to indexing terms, using the term aged (Mesh term) would cover terms like elderly, older adults, elder, etc.
If your question is semantic, the origin of the terms can be really questioned and the use of nouns can depend a lot on the context where it will be employed.
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Liliana Costa
In most recent publications, the term is being replaced by "Older adults"
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