Totally agree, however unfortunately that's the world we live in. It's up to us all to try to change that and things like this hope to keep it in peoples minds that there is a problem with older people being isolated from society - bizarre when you think about it, all the life experience and knowledge people end up with as they get older just seems to get wasted.
What I thought was a great idea for this was the Captain Tom Innovation award that hopes to encourage tech/engineering companies to develop tech and solutions that older people can use to become more inclusive, with 1 in 4 of us being over 65 by 2030 you'd think this would be a huge market for companies.
One of the comments made by his daughter about how Captain Tom used gadgets and tech but they were all a bit rubbish, he used a gadget that helped him put his socks on but it was a bit hard to use and a bit fiddly, also a gadget that he used to help him fasten his shirt buttons, again a bit crap.
Can't be hard to make this stuff really, and here's an idea, employ older people to help design and test the stuff
