What I have noticed with aged gamblers is that, they do it for Fun, older people tend to get lonely sometimes and in such a moment they can engage in activities that they are used to, for some reason many of them choose gambling as relaxation and engaging in the mental process make them go to casino houses where they can engage the minds regardless of the physical conditions, those older retired citizens are the one's gambling for fun in the real sense of it.
If he is accompanied by several people behind him, a kind of bodyguard, and given special services from the casino, it can be said that he may have become a regular customer or VIP guest at the gambling place and his goal may be just to have fun spending money and not to make money. Sometimes parents who have such habits and have large finances when gambling tend to feel pleasure and do not care even though they experience defeat and he spends a lot of time in the casino no matter how old he is.