"Well Aged -- Making the Most of Your Platinum Years" by Ralph Milton

In this case, direct quotes from Milton's book say it all:

“It takes me ten or fifteen minutes just to put on my support socks in the morning. It’s a struggle all right, for which we should get some kind of medal.”

“Wrinkles tell the story of my life. Any youngster can have a nice smooth face, but it takes a lifetime to earn a good set of wrinkles.”

“I’ve dropped all the detritus in the ditch along the road of life, and what’s left of me is the distilled essence of the finest Ralph.”

“babies can’t do anything either,’ she said.

I knew what she meant. Babies are useless, but they are precious. Old people are useless, but they are precious.”

“Old people and babies are useless but precious. But babies are precious because they are brand new and cute and their whole future is ahead of them.

But old people? Precious? We’ve run out of future. We can’t even remember our ‘best-before date. And ‘cute’ isn’t a word you’d use to describe us.”

“Why is it that when you get old, people talk to you as if you’re brain-dead? Or as if you’re in diapers. OK, I am in diapers. But I don’t need to be treated like a baby.”

“In church we are told that we are made in the image and likeness of God. That’s what it says in the very first chapter of the Bible. With that in mind, try standing in front of that big bathroom mirror, naked just before a shower, and tell yourself, ‘I am made in the image of God!”

“. . . we can’t remember what we’ve told to whom or when. We never run out of things to talk about. (A friend) told me that he had run into an older friend in the supermarket recently. The man told him about the treatments he was undergoing for heart ailments. “Then I went down the next aisle and ran into him again. We had exactly the same conversation all over again.’ ”

“every senior needs a pubescent technical consultant.”

Although very funny, Ralph Milton’s main message is that we oldies are not finished yet and we need to keep living . . .

“Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward more light.”