Senior citizens, what is really meant by the saying "Golden Years"?

I am over 80 and have No idea what they are Talking about

I think i missed them

It is supposed to be the time when you dont have to have ambition or struggle with life and take it easy and not work. Being sick is not taken into consideration. You are supposed to enjoy your family and do things you couldnt when you were working.

Age is but a state of mind. 

They are golden if you make them golden by having the correct mindset, that is the key. My grandfather lived for 34 years after retirement and enjoyed mostly every moment of that time.

Go to rural India or Africa. There you will find 90 year olds that look like 50 year olds. These 90 year olds should come here to usa. They would make good money modelling, singing, dancing and being good spouses who look great but will be extremely traditional! 

Well at 70 and just had my 50th wedding anniversary, life is good, a few aches and pains but am still healthy and strong. So Golden Years is  aging well.

I guess they are golden for those who have good health, good finances,  and a good family.  

It has often been said the only thing about the Golden Years, is the colour of your pee.   I believe that.

. The actual phrase “the golden years” was coined in 1959 in an advertising campaign for America’s first large-scale retirement community. It was a roll of the dice to see whether folks “55 and better” would embrace “an active new way of life,” move away from their families, and buy one of the modest homes on a $2 million golf-resort development in the middle of the Arizona desert.

"Golden" refers to 50th birthdays and 50th anniversaries, and is often used tongue-in-cheek (or sardonically) to refer to everything that comes after. According to the traditional nomenclature of such celebrations, gold is the official color of the fiftieth, just as silver is the color of the twenty-fifth.