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Every grey cloud has a silver lining

Senior citizens have the time to enjoy life, but the way they do that and their needs and desires differ per individual. Senior citizens cannot be seen, nor handled, as a single homogeneous group.They can be segmented based on their need to control...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Research Conference 2003

Authors: Vanesse van Eeghen, Liesbeth Gerritsen

Companies: MARE, Ogilvy

November 5, 2003

How to communicate with the older age segment

Life cycle theory is a key element in the practice of advertising and marketing. Over recent years, the emphasis has been on the young, particularly the YUPPIE. Today the emphasis is being redressed because YUPPIES mature and turn into w hat? In 1988...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Authors: Bernard C. Bennett, David Bergg

June 15, 1989

Life-style of the elderly in Austria

Partial results of a comprehensive life-style study are presented here. The subsample of 50-to-75-year olds (n=1.500) was subjected to a cluster analysis with the help of 28 variables. Two of the five resulting clusters characteristically...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Author: Rudolf Bretschneider

Company: GfK

June 15, 1989

Changes in attitude to care of the elderly as a basis of a marketing strategy for insurance products

In Austria, as in an number of OECD-countries, the system of state-sub sidized provision for old age has, because of demo- graphic development, come in need of adjustment. The public did not become aware of this fact until the early 1980's, when...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Is Marketing Keeping Up With The Consumer?

Author: Heinz J. Zeilhofer

June 15, 1989

Selecting advertising routes for older target audiences (more than one way to skin a cat)

Our paper describes TBWA's approach to analysing advertising and how it can be used to isolate the different ways of communicating most effectively to old people as various brands' messages differ. The approach basically involves splitting the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Authors: Jane Fiori, Patrick Peigne

June 15, 1989

Life after 50

The phenomenon of the ageing society in Western Europe is one with which we are aware but with which we have not even begun to come to terms. We still think of the older age group as a homogeneous unit, whereas they are more heterogeneous than...

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: The Over 50's In The 90's

Authors: Vicki Drummond, Greg Smith, Leon Kreitzman

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1991

Beyond the rocking chair

At a recent conference in New York on the issue of age stereotypes, the spokesperson said: "Old people are ugly, decrepit, stupid, forgetful, toothless, sexless after sixty-five, ready to fall off the conveyor belt of life... this is the way the...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1981: From Advertising To Communication Research

Author: Rena Bartos

June 15, 1981

The elderly segment of the Italian population

This paper draws an outline of that segment of the Italian population aged between 55 and 74 years. The paper sheds light on the behavioural patterns and values of the elderly group compared to those of the average, related to several areas: spare...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Author: Paolo Anselmi

Company: GfK

June 15, 1989

Are senior people the same across Europe? The approach of an international magazine

The question posed is the backdrop of the international development of a magazine for senior people : Notre Temps. In view of the exceptional success of this magazine in France, we decided to adapt this concept in Europe and over the North American...

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: The Over 50's In The 90's

Author: Hubert Chicou

June 15, 1991