Have you experienced it personally?
Thank you @Maria! I see a great divide starting at the public level - not just elderly as being category in need, but also usual special considerations for them seeing pushback by other people, younger people. For example taking public transportation at rush hours. Imagine crowded places, everyone wants to get somewhere and people getting territorial - the first to get on the bus, to punch their ticket, to find a spot to sit down etc, but younger people frustrated that not everyone needs to get somewhere. The discourse I hear in my hometown “but why, older, health sensitive, and complaining as they usually do, why do they take the bus on the worst hour? Can’t they wait for a 9 or 10 AM?” You may think this is a very provincial fight, but so telling to me!
I believe this is a divide which in essence is heavily induced by the very policy discourse - in my country it’s always been the fight between the leftist pensioneers favouring party versus the more liberal ones, and elections reflect just that.
I’ve yet to see in my immediate surroundings good projects catering to this gap…
A similar point was made by @Alex_Levene here, talking about the ideological conflict we may end up having with our very own grandparents whose worldviews are frustratingly (and perhaps understandably) last century.