Maybe they have round digital clocks at home though? 
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Watching old TV shows from the 1960’s and 1970’s on the AntennaTV network and all the commercials are for funeral insurance.
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He’s not home now but I’ll ask. I’m sure he’ll have an opinion.
They can always say draw an analog clock with hands that show whatever time they want. That’s what they told my mom when she was tested.
Ahem. My oldest will be 44 tomorrow. 
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Sorry it took me a while to get back to you.
H told me it’s never happened that when he hands the person the paper with the circle that they draw a digital clock. He thinks that most of his patient population, based on age, are probably more familiar with analog clocks than digital, and probably spent more of their lives using them. If they did write out the numbers, he would ask for them to draw the hands.
You go out to dinner with two dear old friends you haven’t seen since pre-pandemic, and the conversation topics are: grandkids, health, spouse’s health, retirement, Medicare, insurance in general, adult kid issues (health, jobs, homebuying, partner issues, etc), and old friends in common and what has happened to them–and you come away so happy to have reconnected again!
(Hopefully next dinner, which will be much sooner, we can move on from the “basics” lol.)
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When you have to get bifocals.
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Needing reading glasses or bifocals (lined or progressive) usually comes at an earlier age than stuff like Medicare, adult kid (post-education) issues, etc., right?
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Depends on the family and the age when one first has kids. But yes…I suspect that bifocals/reading glasses do come before Medicare for most.
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When you call them bifocals instead of progressives. 
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I think that just means AustenNut still young enough not to have been bombarded with progressives propaganda.
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Well, I started with bifocals then moved on to progressives a few years later. (They are different.) Both long before Medicare.
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Makes me feel young as I had to Google the definition for both bifocals and progressives.
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I’ve been wearing progressives since I was in my 40’s. I always considered them a middle aged thing. Now, if I see a pair of bifocals with hearing aids attached, sitting on an end table …. I will suspect an old person of owning them!
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My spouse has terrible eyes and has graduated to “trif#ckles”. And wears them while attending “f#cklety meeting”. Oh, and wears hearing aids, a mouth guard, and orthotics too. This all happened before age 45 
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@ucbalumnus I have terrible vision generally, but FWIW, I’m pretty sure I was maybe 43 with my first pair of progressives to add a bifocal function, so yeah. WELL before Medicare! 
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One word…
Gout.
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Or Shingles. But in all fairness I had shingles as a 7th grader too.