Good form is the real fix for age or dexterity concerns. Keeping your hands relaxed and fingers close to the chanter is what lets you play cleanly and consistently at any age, it matters more, not less, as finger speed naturally changes.
Tiny gracenotes, not tense ones. Clean, crisp gracenotes come from keeping your hands relaxed and close to the chanter, never from squeezing extra tension into your fingers to make them small.
Let a gauge answer 'is it me or my pipes?' A Bagpipe Gauge reading in the upper 20s to low 30s means your pipes are fine and it's a technique issue; 35 or higher usually means your reed is too hard or you have a leak.
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