Old Is In
Description
Is impotence contagious? At what age should a senior be surgically separated from his automobile, or obligated to donate his sex toys to the Salvation Army?
These and other timely questions are among those not answered in Eric Nicol's latest cure for serious reading, Old Is In. This palsied opus responds to demographics warning that our Western society is about to be engulfed by a tidal wave of seniors.
How to cope? Is stoicism the answer? Hell, no! The best way to relieve the stiff upper lip is with a smile. And that prescription is filled, merrily, by Eric Nicol's Old Is In.
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Eric Nicol, one of Canada's best-known satirical writers, is the author of more than 35 books and has won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour three times. He lives in Vancouver and describes himself as "pretty well retired from everything but breathing."
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- The White Wave of Boomers
- Posted Signs of Aging
- The Alternatives
- Actuarial Discrimination
- Features of the Fossilized
- The Gender Gap
- Retirement - The Beginning of the Ugh
- The Dream Cruise
- Choosing a Doctor: A Major Operation
- The Specialist
- Other Predators on Old Folk
- The Hair and Now
- Driving into the Sunset
- Our Old Pal Pain
- Down Memory Lane Without a Map
- Pros and Constipation
- Par for the Intercourse
- The Second (Who's Counting?) Career
- Green Thumbing
- The Hell of Gates
- Too Personal Hygiene
- Other Domestic Death Traps
- When the Eyes Don't Have It
- Hear, Hear!
- The Mature Driver Inquisition
- Duds for the Doddery
- Dressing Tips for the Tottery
- The Out Back
- See Naples and Diet
- The Needs of Knees
- Heroic Measures
- Gramping and Granny Knots
- Pets for the Mature Masochist
- Problems with the Plumbing
- Getting the Finger
- To Sleep, Perchance to Snore
- The Nappy Gaffer
- Teeth - True or False?
- Raising Cane
- Seniors Discounted
- Passing Time Without Straining
- How to Addle a Nest Egg
- The Irrelativity of Time
- Pharmacy Phantasies
- For Whom the Siren Wails
- Home to Rust
- Dumping the Stuff of Life
- The Last Will or Wont
- Thinking Young
- Death Can Be Fatal
- So Who Needs Us?
- Welcome to the Second (or More) Childhood!
- Rx: Divine Intervention
- The Plus Side of Dotage
