Age frame for middlescence

"I'm too old to be young and too young to be old," lamented Kathy Bates in "Fried Green Tomatoes."

Enough youth to inspire and energize our dreams and enough age to give us the practical wisdom to live and enjoy these dreams- the best of both worlds-middle youth.

The above two lines probably gives you mind frame for middlescence. But what is the exact ageframe to define middlescence?

Nobody is sure; different writers have put it differently.

• 45-60 (Dorothea McArthur, Ph.D., A.B.P.P)
• 30-50 for Middlescence-I and 50-70 for Middlescence-II ( Joanne S. Stevenson,Ph.D)
• 35- 55 (Ken Dychtwald,Ph.D)
• 40+ (Gail Sheehy)
• Macmillan English Dictionary defines the frame as between their thirties and mid-forties and also as between thirty and forty-five
• between the ages of 40 and 60 (Britanica Encyclopaedia)

The period differs person to person but,it appears, is generally taken as 40-60 by medical profession.

"Sometimes the best begins in the middle."