How do you feel about getting older?

Your alarm clock goes off. You:

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Grab a glass of water and swallow the day’s vitamin pills
Open the window wide and take in the fresh air
Grumble about the noise your neighbours were making last night
Hide under the covers

You’re in front of the mirror and you notice some new wrinkles. You:

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Consider Botox
Apply some expensive wrinkle cream
Secretly hope that no one else will notice
Know you can’t do anything about it

A much younger family member points out some trendy trainers in a shop. You:

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Go in and buy a pair for her and a pair for yourself
Ask her what she particularly likes about them
Are critical of designers who are only interested in young people
Don’t bother with trainers anymore

Some friends your age suggest going away for a walking holiday. You think:

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You’d prefer to do something more exciting
It’s a good idea. It’ll be good to get some fresh air into your lungs
It sounds a bit too much like a Saga holiday
There’s no point. You won’t be able to keep up

You’re watching an episode of One Foot in the Grave. You:

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Find it horrifying
Find it difficult to watch
Enjoy it
Don’t see what’s so funny

You’re spending the evening with your partner. You:

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Play squash
Play scrabble while listening to music
Catch up with a good friend who is really bored of her retirement home
Watch ‘Who Wants to be a Millionnaire?’

You live:

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In a modern flat in the centre of town
In a big house in the country
In a little house in the suburbs
Somewhere near your children

You are doing some voluntary work at a retirement home:

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Running a workshop on photography/painting/poetry…
Because you are researching a book on how we should care for the elderly in the future
To raise money to improve the condition of the grounds
Because you like joining in with the board games they play in the afternoon

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Personality Test

Your alarm clock goes off. You:

You’re in front of the mirror and you notice some new wrinkles. You:

A much younger family member points out some trendy trainers in a shop. You:

Some friends your age suggest going away for a walking holiday. You think:

You’re watching an episode of One Foot in the Grave. You:

You’re spending the evening with your partner. You:

You live:

You are doing some voluntary work at a retirement home: