We do that essentially by simply doing the best we can to understand the mores of the day and to overcome, as my children encourage me to do every day, our age. I'm alive, as we all have to be, to the fact that there are generational changes and generational views.
You can't have dinner with my children without them texting during dinner. Your father and my father probably wouldn't have approved of that, but it's one of the mores of the day. That's perhaps a ridiculous example, but it is one. Toleration is difficult for all generations.
Interestingly enough the demographics in our group of 87 people are probably the same as those in your group of 308 people. Those in their fifties and up predominate, there are very few young people, and about one third are women. There's some pollination and some cross-pollination, but I think one must understand that's the reason commissioners don't have to be reappointed. They are considered for reappointment and it's pretty quickly evident whether they're yesterday's person or today's.