What's up with your local elderly?

I don't know too much about what's up with my local elderly because I am too busy to find out. (Apparently our usual media avenues are not going to focus in too much on this aspect of life for us.) But I have heard of the following, recently, just in regular (non-media) life: A frail elderly woman goes to get groceries to stock up before a cold snap. Then she waits for almost two hours for a cab to come pick her up. Also I've heard that needed funding has been cut for old folks who need their winter heating bills subsidized. It seems that many people among us are suffering, just outside of our personal daily radar screens. These old folks are the ones who raised us and brought about and/or invented many of the good things in our world that we now take for granted. We should honor them better than to let them suffer because of inflation, or have them wait for two hours for a cab when they are frail. Also, anyone who gets to be old in this society has probably lived a good and honorable lifestyle. So they deserve better. I'm a materialistic idiot like most of us in this society. But we need to start changing our ways, when and where we see that we can. I don't really know how to start to help the frail around us better than we have been, but it is probably a good idea for us to start thinking about it.