Meaningful Life and Old Folks (15 questions)

Social interactions
1.How do old people generally relate to strangers?
2.Based on what would old people generally categorize themselves among the old society?
3. How do old people treat one another? How can you compare it to young adults?
4. Stereotypically, gossiping is known to be the most interesting activity for women since around their 30's. How is it that it is difficult for a 30 year old woman to constantly gossip with a 70 year old woman? Would this be due to the lack of exposure in society?
And what are their roles?
5. If old people were to interact more with the youth, how would our culture shift? And where and how often do old people go outside with the purpose of socializing with others.
6. Based on media's definition of young people (technology addicts), In what way could old people relate to us based on interests or hobbies.
7. If corporate culture (new movies. magazines, clothes, electronics) is the youth's number one conversation topic, and old people is rarely exposed to it; what other conversation topics can be created to satisfy both, old people and young people?
8. How could elders cross the line that divides living as an old person (Doing generally nothing) and young adults (beginning of their lives, making money)?
9. Based on my previous interviews, aspects such as family, love, etc. are identified as the meaning of life by the elders. If young people has a very much similar meaning of life, could we use this to relate to elders more easily?

Statistics
10.At what age do old people consider themselves as "reserve"?
11.How many old people spend their time performing simple tasks such as cleaning community places?
12.What is the percentage of old people working at a supermarket packing the costumer's items?

13.What will the percentage of retirements be when the baby boomers retire? How would this affect the economy?
14.Considering that a high percentage of the population is above 60 years old, what kind of jobs could be offered from now on to keep balance or even improve the economy?

Objective
15.What can be done to motivate old people to live and contribute?