I guess at age 62 it's probably out of the question to have one of your parents to hold the seat and run along side you as you pedal...
My little girl is 7 and still on training wheels. We haven't had a lot of time to work on her learning how to balance, but I'm definitely going to remove the training wheels and then the pedals and allow her to push with her feet and learn to balance that way. She already knows how to pedal, but she can't balance yet.