He has played at the youth international level and in some senior friendlies, but not yet in an official senior international for Mexico.
The Under-21 manager takes his side to the Netherlands three days after striker Rhodes is due to get his debut in the seniors' friendly in Cyprus.
"Many consumer electronics makers are still not designing senior-friendly products," he said.
Doro, a maker of senior-friendly cellphones in Lund, Sweden, is using panels of elderly consumers to test its devices.
In February, Entra Health Systems announced a deal with the Swedish mobile phone company Doro to make its MyGlucoHealth service available on their senior-friendly cellphones.
But that has not stopped 60-, 70- and 80-somethings from heading to senior-friendly language immersion classes to tackle verb conjugations and the nuances of idioms — in places like the Tuscan hills and beach towns of Costa Rica.
During a recent appearance at a senior-friendly restaurant called the Feed Bag, in Apache Junction, Cardon talked about growing up amid his family's many businesses, which ranged from real estate to gas stations.
For example, besides the kneeling buses now in use, the city is testing senior-friendly, one-step-up "low-floor buses," in which the floors are two feet closer to the ground than in ordinary models.
But from Rick Santorum to the DeMint-Paul-Lee troika in the Senate, more conservative figures in the party tend to be more committed to phasing in entitlement reform sooner rather than later, and the Paul Ryan plan's senior-friendly promise to preserve Medicare as-is for the over-55 population looks more like a play to the center than to the base.
"We make sure the gyms are senior-friendly," she added.
