What is not gerontodesign?

When we see an elder person whit a cane or in a wheel chair we used to think that the person is using the products for the elders, we used to get confused about medical design and gerontodesign.

Medical design can be used by everybody, a child or a pregnant woman, an adult or a teen ager could be the users of one medical design product.

The example that I love to used for the explain this idea is Dr. House.
Why Dr. House?

The cane that House use to walk is a symbol that he distorts into another new one, a cane is a medical design object that represents some kind of pain and disability, also a cane represents power, represents respect (Do you remember Moises or Noe?) so, the cane is a symbol of aging and House doesn't want to be old, so he distorts the cane, he converts it into a symbol that maybe makes him more interesting or sexier (for some women), so he turns the cane's symbols into another's one's…

Gerontodesign is in some kind of way the Dr. House cane's, is resolve the necessities of elders in a different way, because the elders are different now, and even if we talk about a 90 years old person, we are not talking about a boring or sad person, so may be the cane with flames will be ok…:) 

what do you think?