Abstracts
issue 1/2018 (English)
Kai-Uwe Hellmann: On Seniors Consumption. A Literature Review
Only since the 1950s, there exists academic research concerning the consumption behavior of the elderly, particularly seniors, in North America, and for Europe since the 1990s. The main focus lies on consumption in a narrow sense, exclusively related to all activities that fall into the category of shopping. Everything else, that means the real use of the goods and services by older people in daily life, has been neglected almost completely, as is being demonstrated in a first evaluation of a related literature research. The article documents the present state of art of seniors’ consumption research that distinguishes between pure shopping and the subsequent consumption of goods and services by senior consumers.
Other abstracts in this issue:
- Communing and Share Economy of Older Migrants in Germany
- The Variety of Sharing Economy – Examples of Online-Platforms
- The Race for What’s Left: The Global Valorization of the »Common Heritage of Mankind« – the Example of the UN Deep Seabed Mining Regime
- Coffee, Corn and Feasts. The Entanglement of Common Subsistence Cultivation with Market Oriented Economy of Nahuat Speaking Indigenes in Mexico
- Humanitarian and Economic Aspects of Health Care for Irregular Migrants in the European Union – Results of a European Study