Age always does matters, especially the adaptability in learning, risk tolerance, experience, and financial stability. Younger people almost have this all, except for experience and financial stability, well, financial stability might not always. While older peeps have most of these except for the learning adaptability although we are in information era where we can access any information through online so that will fill the gap of oldies. Although this is not always the case of everybody since not all have the resources but to specific, oldies can still learn bitcoin and invest into it with the proper resources and approach.
I agree with you. Bitcoin and blockchain technology provide good applications and usages for everyone but the elderly have more difficult to accept new technology and struggle to use it than younger people.
It's simply to recognize a fact that if you give your grandmother or grandfather a mobile smart phone, he or she will struggle to use it. It can take some days or many weeks for your grandma, grandpa to use simple features on the smart phone. Fear of losing money is big barrier to prevent them using Bitcoin blockchain for money transfer. It's natural fear for the elderly and it's not only with blockchain but they are more keen on doing things they are familiar with like using cash then doing online bank transfer, blockchain for transactions.
Bitcoin was generally made for everyone to use, and no age limitations in as much you can read and understand its simple code commands thats "send and receive orders, or further how to place buy and sell order for someone who wants to purchase Bitcoin and you are abe to secure your key phrases properly
Age affects all of us and the elderly have more problems to use computers and digital devices than younger people. It is always true and in future when we become older, we will have more problems to learn new things, adapt to new technology. With current elderly, it's difficult to adapt to mobile devices, Internet and blockchain technology.