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The median 65 year old today male will live to be 87, according to the Society of Actuaries. And the average 65 year old woman live to be 89. And that's just the average. We've found that most people who use this calculator are above average.
As far as I know, in 1975 Norman Ryder put forward a study stating that a person aged 65 has only 10 more years to live. He considered the remaining life-expectancy of 10 years to define elderly and the calculated value for this was 65 years of age.