Speech-based Intelligent Personal Assistants (sIPAs) available in the market are evolving towards the needs of older adults. They are currently being used for entertainment, generic tasks, and reminders primarily. We conducted a semi-structured interview study with fourteen older adults to understand whether they found sIPA useful or not. The collected data were analyzed using inductive and deductive coding. In accordance with our insights generated from the interview, we propose a future research framework, including permission to store data, using explainable artificial intelligence principles, dialect and accent recognition, and humanized communication to improve virtual assistants in the design to make them efficient and fruitful for older adults daily use.INDEX TERMS Older adults, virtual assistants, usability, text tagging, inductive and deductive coding