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Materialism is often blamed for consumers' unsustainable consumption behaviors and its contribution to a growing "throwaway culture." Conversely, frugal consumers are regarded as both restrained in their acquisition, and resourceful in their use and disposal of products. In this paper, the authors challenge and empirically test these prevailing beliefs. The authors focus on a much-neglected aspect of the consumption continuum: the disposal of products at the end-use of consumption, and how key consumer traits (i.e., materialism and frugality) influence behaviors at this stage. Specifically, the authors examined three creative end-use consumption behaviors with a sample of 398 US consumers. Results support the counter-intuitive notion that materialism, alongside frugality, has a positive impact on consumers' sustainable consumption behaviors. The data suggest that materialistic consumers are prone to finding new and different uses for products and alternative methods of product disposal. The study's results also support the notion that frugality interacts with materialism to increase intentions to find alternative methods of product disposal. The authors discuss the implications pertaining to their findings and pave the way for future research in sustainable consumption. K E Y W O R D Screative end-use consumption behavior, frugality, materialism, PLS-SEM

Asthma and ageing: an end user' s perspective-the perception and problems with the management of asthma in the elderly AbstractDespite the high prevalence of asthma in the elderly, its development, diagnosis, and treatment are underresearched. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the current state of knowledge in relation to management of asthma in the elderly -focusing on barriers to diagnosis and treatment and the central role of self-management. Asthma prevalence increases with age, as does the risk of dying from asthma, and with the ageing of the population and increasing life expectancy, the prevalence of (diagnosed and undiagnosed) asthma in older adults is expected to increase drastically, placing an increasing burden on sufferers, the community and health budgets. Asthma sufferers are more likely to be psychologically distressed and at a higher risk of anxiety and depression, more likely to experience a sense of lack of control over their health and to have lower self-reported quality of life. Asthma is under-diagnosed, and under-treated, in the elderly, further exacerbating these negative consequences. The review concludes, among other things, that there is a need to better understand the development and impact of asthma in the elderly, to increase community awareness of asthma in the elderly, to improve both 'medical management' and 'self-management' in this population and to develop more effective tools for diagnosis and treatment of asthma in the elderly. The paper concludes with key recommendations for future research and practice in this area.