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Make sure the older folks do the safe stuff though.
We all went to the playground with my MIL (early 60's) over Christmas. I was riding around on one of the kids' razor scooters while they were on the jungle gym thing, and after I stopped doing it, my MIL got on the scooter. She was very awkward and unbalanced on it, but her two grown children didn't yell at her to get off it, so I wasn't going to say anything. She rode it for a minute or two in tentative, awkward circles around the basketball court. Just about ten seconds after I told my wife her mom was making me really nervous on that thing, she wiped out. Fortunately she didn't break any bones, but she had a nasty black eye, and multiple cuts and bruises. I was able to fix her broken glasses well enough to get her home.
So I think that 60+ year old women (or men) who just finished recovering from hip replacement surgery shouldn't be trying out a razor scooter for the first time. But hey, if they have safe playground equipment for seniors, I'm all for it.
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