Not sure. However how would you view this incident:
Some years ago when my Dad was alive, we had all just come back from some visit and Dad, having got out of the car, was crossing the pavement between the car and the front gate. Dad was then a bit shaky on his feet but reasonably mobile. There was a lane coming down the side of the house used by many of the schoolchildren on their way home from school. On this occasion one vile little brat came haring down the lane and nearly collided with Dad. Could have had serious consequences due to Dad's frailty. When remonstrated with, the said vile brat replied "it doesn't matter because he's old and doesn't matter anymore". I think for instances like this, yes, I would have classed that as hate. Had Dad suffered injury or worse, I would have viewed that as needing to be viewed as a hate crime.
In later years, after Dad's death, my Mum was subject (along with other older people in the area), to distraction burglaries, the perpetrators using the older people's diminished physical and mental capacities, as a means of carrying out their vile behaviour. Shouldn't this type of crime also attract stiffer sentences?
Sorry for the long post, but something I feel strongly about.