If older women played more intergenerational competitive sports with younger women, they'd find it easier to escape the limits of the "shell". Older players in any team sport have much better software that often beats the younger players' superior hardware. They play with better impulse control, more emotional intelligence and teamwork and often get better results with less effort. For me it's basketball 🏀 with teammates 5 to 50 years younger. For older women it could be any sport they used to play and could again.