Living in a place where it starts snowing at the end of November and doesn't stop until mid-April, I can tell you that the elderly in our neighbourhood pretty much go into hibernation all winter. No matter how hard we try to keep the walks clean, it's impossible. We grow up with it, so learn how to move around in it, even with canes, crutches and walkers. But it's not pleasant. Even going for a daily walk is a frustrating exercise, because by the time we put on enough layers to keep us warm, we can hardly move and we weigh almost double what we normally do. LOL. Once we're all layered up and warm enough, it IS nice to be outside on a sunny winter day (gotta wear sunglasses though to avoid snow blindness), but it can be really hard to get around even with the best of boots.

We have elderly folks in our neighbourhood, we just don't see them outside for most of the winter months. We often make extra portions of our meals, homemade soups, etc and send them over. And hubby goes over to visit every 2 or 3 days. But you can always tell that spring's here when everyone starts poking their heads out the door again!