Does your back go out more than you do? Do all young people seem self-absorbed, overweight and orange? When you?re asleep on the couch, do small children think you?ve died? If so, help is at hand with this compelling guide to the joys and perils of growing older. Filled with anecdotes, stories and words of goodhumoured wisdom, this book also lends comforting support as we totter towards the inevitable.