Ms Margharita Solon:

If it is around and surrounding a person, even if a person does not participate, he or she has a choice to be there. My mother is 96 years old and she said that one of the things that kills her the most is that she has no new stories to tell. If she is watching, if she is going out and seeing things - even if she does not participate - there is a stimulus and the brain synapses are firing because something new is being seeing and eventually we get little Jane coming over and asking for help. It is osmosis and a person just becomes part of it eventually, if it is there, as opposed to having to go and sign up to be in it. If it is all around a person, it percolates up and he or she becomes part of it.