Interpersonal communication is described as the exchange of  information between two or more people  of information between two or more people (Lustig and Jolene23) are faced with this challenge (Stewart127). language that is appropriate to them.

Why do young people think that elderly people are different, and they require a unique form of communication? This notion is just a stereotype, and it often makes people develop the fear when they are supposed to communicate with their elders. You said that at first you feared, and you did not have an idea how you were going to spend that afternoon. But what happened after you started chatting with them, you realized it was not like the way you had thought at first. The point here is that speaking to elderly people is not much different from the way you speak to age mates(Lustig and Jolene76). your confidence is very significant. It is still the same case when communicating to people from different cultures (Stewart161).

References

Lustig, Myron W., and Jolene Koester.Intercultural competence: Interpersonal communication across cultures. Boston, NJ: Allyn and Bacon, 2003.

Stewart, John Robert, ed. Bridges not walls: A book about interpersonal communication. McGraw-Hill, 2002.