Możliwości rozwoju rynku usług dla rdzennej ludności wiejskiej w wieku 60 plus
Opportunities for Development of the Service Market for the Native Rural Population Aged 60+

Summary/Abstract: Needs are a dynamic, hence variable, category both related to feeling thereof, hierarchy of their importance and to consequences of urgency of meeting them. The variability of needs in these multiple references is determined by the factors characterising the individual, consumer (endogenous variables) and the factors describing further and closer environment in which the individual is functioning (exogenous variables). One of the major endogenous determinants is age, while exogenous ones – the place of residence, especially by the scheme: rural and urban areas. This fact indicates the legitimacy of identification of the needs of elderly rural dwellers, what in this text will concern those needs whose satisfaction may imply the development of the market for services for this category of consumers. One may think that due to the accompanying the age 60+ illnesses and other problems in everyday functioning, elderly consumers report specific expectations as regards services. For the recognition of needs of elderly rural dwellers, satisfaction of which may imply the development of the market for services, there were used findings of author surveys carried out in 2014 in four provinces of eastern Poland (the so-called Poland B). The own research findings were supplemented by the data of other surveys (CSO, CBOS, Pretendent, i.e. Pretender), confirming difficult living conditions of elderly people in the countryside and the legitimacy to set forth the opportunities for developing small service enterprises which will offer services smoothing difficulties of life of elderly people living in the countryside, particularly as regards medical care and assistance in shopping.

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