Some universal indoor environmental requirements of the seniors from NorthernEast to SouthernWest Europe

The attitudes can reveal the hidden reasons behind the customer choices. Referred interviewstudies identified typical indoor environmental requirements of the residents and madeinternational comparison of the feedback from both young families and senior citizens.Good housing conditions have positive influence on people's wellbeing and they should bearchived without energy usage in vain. Even if most the elderly can manage well in nominalindoor air conditions, some of them might complain of draft or low room temperatures. Theaged housing of the studied elderly lacked proper heating and good indoor air. Seniorcitizens feedback was quite similar when comparing response from Finland and from Spain.For the differences in the indoor air quality needs control possibility could be a solution. Theacceptance of energy saving technology was low if the basic needs were not satisfiedcomfortable enough or the control set disturbs the routines of daily life, which in this caseconcerned the restrictive technology of room temperatures and in comparison that of homeappliances in the sake of energy efficiency.