Old people are not fundamentally ‘other’ to young people. Their bodies are older, of course, and they’ve  accumulated far more experiences, of course, but inside, we’re all highly similar And yes, old people do enjoy play, as we see here.

A passage from a forgotten writer named Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. makes this point very nicely:

Don’t ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever were there, they are there still!

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So, please keep this image in mind and spend some time focusing on people’s interiors, rather than their exteriors. That’s not the easiest thing to do, but the more we focus on it, the better at it we become. And it’s important, because the ‘inner man’ is what actually matters in most situations.