Some years ago my mother opened the door to find several small children with their teacher who presented her with a home made harvest festival hamper. She graciously accepted it with thanks then phoned me as her DGDs both attended the said school.
On questioning my DDs, it transpired DD aged 7 had nominated them after an appeal to help the "Elderly, poor and needy of the parish".
Mum and Dad were both in their mid fifties, in excellent health and certainly not poor.
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I was chatting to my daughter today about this and that and the talk turned to a big birthday I have coming up. She was under the impression that I wouldn't want to go out to celebrate because I would not wish to stay out late(ish)! I had to tell her to hold her horses for a minute - she seemed to think that I have magically transformed into a doddering old grandma who falls asleep in her chair at 6pm 
I assured her that I most certianly would like to go out and celebrate, but it made me wonder what else she expects me to start doing now I've made it (a few years) past the grand old age of 60... With a smile, of course, I rmeinded her that I'm fit as a fiddle (luckily), good with technology (I created the whatsapp group that we all talk on as a family) and that she shouldn't expect me to start walking about in a housecoat any time soon (I still want to be vaguely fashionable!).
People still seem to think 60 automatically means 'old', oddly. Has anyone else come across any funny assumptions about how you'll behave as soon as you hit that age? I'm wondering what to expect in the next decade if it's like this now!
Nanarose, I understand your point that sometimes it is a polite enquiry about someone's capacity to do things, and also that these things have to be investigated but I think the thread is really about how we feel when we are asked these things! It can come as a bit of a surprise when we realise how we appear to others 
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