Senior vs Elderly

As I was doing a search for elderly a group of pictures or images showed up that were associated with the word "elderly". About 1000 pictures showed up, but the first few pictures gave a good summary of the pictures. The first was an older lady in a wheelchair looking out a window, looking lonely. The second was of an older man by himself, looking lonely again. The last one was of a lady with what looks like a nurse beside her in what looks like a nursing home, blowing out candles on a birthday cake. How depressing. Just type the word elderly and is this what people picture when they hear this word? Lonely people, by their selves? Looking out of a window, longing to be outside of their nursing home? Next I did an image search for "senior". Totally different story here. These pictures were bright, and all of the people looked happy. There is a picture of an older couple playing video games, a couple on the beach and a couple navigating the internet. A big difference from the older people with walkers. But is there that big of a difference between elderly and senior? Webster's dictionary defines elderly as: being over middle age; rather old. And defines senior as: a person older than another or a person with higher standing or rank. It's all in the wording. To me senior and elderly sounds like you are describing the same kind of person. I guess to the Internet world, senior is a "less old" person than elderly and people look at this word differently than elderly. Senior makes them think of a younger person than elderly. Funny how wording can make you think of one person two different ways. Do you think of an elderly person as being older than a senior citizen? Interested in knowing what everyone thinks.

I have attached a link about someone else's perspective on elderly vs senior. One lady actually says that she thinks of elderly as "shuffling, bent over and wrinkled"! To each their own I guess. The link is in the title.