Designing for the Life Span Segment 3
Designing for the Life Span Segment 3 
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Designers have developed their responses to age related changes, interpretations of the physiological and behavioral information that lead to better design- more inclusive design for a fuller range of an adult population. Two such books are Aging and the Product Environment, by Koncelik and Guidelines for Designing Transgenerational Products by James Pirkl.
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There are some design resources specifically orientated to the issues of aging and design. Two that are shown, Koncelik's, Aging and the Product Environment, and Pirkl's, Guidelines and Strategies for Designing Transgenerational Products, - and Pirkl's later book, Transgenerational Design: Designing Products for an Aging Society, fall into this category of the design literature.
Universal design as a concept and philosophy of design is distinctly different from philosophies and the literature of designing for older adults - and has a very strong orientation to severe disability and total inclusiveness. At some point in the near future, the gerontological perspective and the effort toward universal inclusiveness shall merge.
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