What is gerontodesign?

Gerontodesign could be defined as the design for  elders, but the topic is more specific. 

First we need to know who is an elder person and what characteristics presents, second we need to know what is design.

Design is to designate something to someone or to something, the concept of design goes over the aesthetics and the functional, the concept involves more than one specific topic.

Joaquim Parra Marujo defines gerontodesign in this way:

"Is the agglutination of gerontology and design" (2006)

The universal design is one concept that precedes the gerontodesign, because the universal design is about accessibility and it haves the goal of make that all the people have the same opportunities in the social life, the concept of universal design was defined in 2004 at the declaration of Stockholm EIDD.

The universal design looks for the inclusion of elders, as we know the inclusive design includes people in so many ways, one way is making products and services inclusive for all and other way is making it exclusive.

Gerontodesign is an exclusive design that includes elders into the society.

So, as a first approach we can say that gerontodesign is the design for elders that is focus in the inclusion of them by designing exclusive products and services, all that based in the inclusive and emotional design.

..to be continued 

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