--- title: Emoji for Old People description: After feeling that the current emoji didn't represent her life, Diane Hill took it upon herself to make emoji with older folks in mind. canonical: https://time.com/4549033/old-people-emoji/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-28T15:16:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:09.102Z og:title: This Woman Created Her Own Emoji for Senior Citizens og:description: Meet the 'emoldjis' og:url: https://time.com/4549033/old-people-emoji/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2303886d2279a0e4/6988abf9cd1bba7a6c702e0d/old.jpg?branch=production&width=624&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 624 og:image:height: 351 og:image:alt: old og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Woman Created Her Own Emoji for Senior Citizens twitter:description: Meet the 'emoldjis' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2303886d2279a0e4/6988abf9cd1bba7a6c702e0d/old.jpg?branch=production&width=624&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Woman Created Her Own Emoji for Senior Citizens > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 28, 2016 3:16 PM UTC  By Chris Oxenbury  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 28, 2016 3:16 PM UTC After feeling that the current [emoji offerings](http://time.com/4411223/world-emoji-day/) didn’t accurately represent her life, a UK woman took it upon herself to make emoji [with mature folks in mind](http://time.com/4464811/aging-happiness-stress-anxiety-depression/). The 56-year-old Diane Hill came up with the idea to create emoji that would reflect the range of experiences that senior citizens have — from back pain to impaired eyesight. She then recruited local artist Chris Oxenbury to design her emoji suggestions, which she then sent to Unicode Consortium to be approved for the next round of emoji updates. In an interview with the [_BBC_](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-37789947), Hill explained it thusly: “I need something that shows pain because my back hurts, my knees hurt and I need emojis with glasses,” she said. “I could send any of these emojis to my friends and they’d know what I mean.” Here’s hoping that we see some of Hill’s emoji in the next update. \[[BBC](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-37789947)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4549033/old-people-emoji/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4549033/old-people-emoji/"},"headline":"This Woman Created Her Own Emoji for Senior Citizens","datePublished":"2016-10-28T15:16:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:09.102Z","description":"Meet the \"emoldjis\"","url":"https://time.com/4549033/old-people-emoji/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Technology","emoji","Culture","emojis"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2303886d2279a0e4/6988abf9cd1bba7a6c702e0d/old.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2303886d2279a0e4/6988abf9cd1bba7a6c702e0d/old.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"old","caption":"","creditText":"By Chris Oxenbury","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4549033/old-people-emoji/","name":"This Woman Created Her Own Emoji for Senior Citizens"}}]}] ```