@Paperdain, and @jimmysnan. I think both of you bring some viable solutions. These would give us the options of using these items for our Sims but not making a game about a disease or disability. I wouldn't think EA would want to either offend people with these conditions, nor would they want to scare off customers who wouldn't find this idea much fun.
About the hospital pack idea -- I love this idea for offering disabled people a way to represent themselves in the game in a way that would be respectful to them, as well as provide some fun and interesting opportunites for those who might be turned off by a pack only about disabilities; but, I do find that it won't be likely since EA already added hospitals with the doctor career in Get to Work. It is still a good way to solve this dilemma, but even if EA were to implement this, I can just see a bunch of disgruntled players complaining that EA has run out of ideas for TS4 and are now recycling from other TS4 expansion packs! Still, I like this idea. I just think others might not.
I also agree that not all elders are hunched over, or hit other people with their purses! I don't mind it from Mrs. Crumplebottom because she probably did this sort of thing all her life! But I would say about only half of the seniors I know walk hunched over. They are usually the ones with a lot of medical problems to begin with, and some of them even walked hunched over when they were middle aged or only when their condition flared up! Other seniors I know are very active! So, I agree with the wheelchairs, ramps, canes, walkers, and crutches. The only problem with this is that some of the people who have expressed an interest in representing their disabilitiess have people in their lives who are blind or deaf, or etc. This type of addition will not address their wishes for representation in the game.
I have an autoimmune disease that I do not want in the game (it is not fun in any way shape or form). But I can see that if I had had this disease as a child or teen, and felt like there was hardly anybody like me with this disease, then knowing me I would probably have wanted it in my Sims game! I've also known deaf people who loved it when they were represented in film or TV or books. On the other hand one of my best friends was legally blind (she had very little vision) and she certainly would have hated it if her handicap had infiltrated her favorite game!
This is such a dilemma!