[Consumer information activities in old age (author's transl)]

The following feature occupies with consumer information activities in old age. These informations are partial results of a study that was carried out in the Institut für Sozialforschung und Gesellschaftspolitik in Cologne by order of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Verbraucher and which deals with chances of consumer policy for people in old age (Naegele 1977). The paper's major elements are, first, essential sources of information of old people (source of supply itself, communication with relatives and friends before buying, written informations), and second, favourite sources of consumer informations to protect and to acquaint old consumers.