We'll be old…I hope

Thanks to the medicine, the greats achieves that doctors and researchers have been done, we'll be older than now. It's difficult  to see that fact, but it's true. Not only the designers need to rethink how we design, all humanity needs to rethink their activities and values.

Japanese people respect to much to the elders, and thats so nice! … mexican people ( usually in small's towns ) have the same respect for elders that japanese have to their own. But, what happen in USA? The youngest people seems to have some troubles about being respectful with their grandparents … the media, the trends tend to disrespect the old people. We need to remember that baby boomers where the starters in this ideas, they said that old is boring….and start with all this changes. Now baby boomers are old….

So, gerontodesign is not a salvation to all of our problems, No. The education, the good moral values, the family union and the society are the strongest parts for solving the problems that we will confront in a near future.

Gerontodesign pretends to take this values : the love, the emphatic, the respect, the family union, and so on… We will be old…I hope so, because we will had a second chance to rethink the social values that we have been promoted.

…Rethink!