TY - JOUR T1 - Dr Grumpy will see you now … JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 296 LP - 296 DO - 10.3399/bjgp08X280119 VL - 58 IS - 549 AU - James Willis Y1 - 2008/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/58/549/296.abstract N2 - My mother-in-law has just received a jury summons, which was forwarded to my wife by the old lady's care home, my wife having held her power of attorney for some years and now being engaged in managing her probate. It is rather sweet to think that our modern, technologically-empowered state still thinks 94-year-old ladies, even live ones, might potentially be useful.When I was young and naïve enough to give Workers Educational Association pre-retirement lectures I used to point out the curious fact that we don't just live to be parents, we live to be grandparents. It might have been different, I used to say, but it isn't, and there must be a reason. Evolution of course weeds out any characteristics which confer disadvantage to the species and if it were not an advantage for us to live beyond our immediate child-bearing years, we … ER -