Voltaire
Sorry, but they are not '(very) elderly people'. My parents are in their mid and late 80s. They still run rings round and drive myself and my sister up the wall. They both still go for daily strolls along the beach, volunteer in one of the local charity shops. If the Duke of Kent and his sister Princess Alexandra feel that they a capable of still carrying out their duties, more power to them. Do not consign someone to the dung heap just because they are in the Winter of their lives.
We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.305