@kn1820wrote:
"................... As for seniors not being able to adapt to changing conditions, it's your friend's job to help them adapt, whether that entails providing training sessions himself, bringing in someone to train them, or providing online courses. Seniors can learn, but someone has to be willing to teach them.....".
"Adapting" is more than learning. Both DW and myself have seen any number of working seniors struggle, and quit, jobs where how the job was done was severely altered. They just refused to change their procedures and gave the old 'that's the way we always did it' excuse. In the cases I'm familiar with, there was training, but it was simply 'too much' to get (some) seniors to adapt.
Again, it's anecdotal, but that has been my experience and dw's, and we're both in our late 60's. I was in IT, and had to relearn about 30% of my job every several years with the huge changes in hardware/software. It was a lot of work, a lot of extra hours on my own, to do this.
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