Older people have dryer hands. My mother in law has trouble with her phone all the time because of this.
A vaguely related story:
I had to get my fingerprints taken to volunteer at my kids school. They use a touchscreen device to take the fingerprints, and it kept failing. Mind you I was only about 44 at the time, so not exactly elderly.
The teenager working the counter says to me, "Oh yeah, that happens to old people a lot, you'll just have keep trying". The sting of calling me old was real.
She gave me some hand lotion and after about three more tries it finally read my prints.
A vaguely related story:
I had to get my fingerprints taken to volunteer at my kids school. They use a touchscreen device to take the fingerprints, and it kept failing. Mind you I was only about 44 at the time, so not exactly elderly.
The teenager working the counter says to me, "Oh yeah, that happens to old people a lot, you'll just have keep trying". The sting of calling me old was real.
She gave me some hand lotion and after about three more tries it finally read my prints.