Unfortunately, many elderly people are not adequately financed, but receive minimum pensions. Of course, these funds can hardly be enough to ensure normal living conditions and a happy old age.
At the same time, there are people older than middle age who do not have financial problems, but they absolutely do not want to stay at home and exclude work from their lives, because everyone wants to be an active and helpful member of society. Business for seniors is not a closed topic, as it may seem to many young people. Life experience does its job, and many businessmen of advanced age show excellent results.
Wage labor
Of course, an elderly person does not have to cross out his own person from life. You can turn to hired labor - a good alternative to loneliness and living in the "four walls" of your own apartment or house. The only problem with this option is the fact that for people who have reached a certain age, in most cases there is no interesting and well-paid job. Firstly, watchmen, wardrobes, watchmen, cleaners are paid very little, and secondly, such work, to put it mildly, is not the ultimate dream of even an elderly person.
Home business
If hired labor is not considered as an option, pensioners can pay attention to the rather extensive scope of home business.
Business ideas for pensioners are quite diverse, and if you find something to your liking that brings a stable income, you can ensure a comfortable life and forget about the expectations when the day comes for the next retirement payment. Such an activity can diversify the time, which is usually more than enough for non-working pensioners, bring a new hobby to the life of an elderly person, enable an aged person to feel himself a necessary and important individual, and even serve as the basis for a happy old age. 
Opening of IP by people of retirement age
A separate point that should be noted before considering the business for pensioners in more detail is the interaction with the state, that is, the need to pay taxes. In fact, the legislation does not bring any surprises in the matter of registering a pensioner as an individual entrepreneur. There are no special requirements applicable to people who receive pensions and want to start their own business. The procedure established for registering an individual entrepreneur is the same for all citizens of any age and includes several steps required for a future businessman to go through.
Tax system
An important factor that should be considered especially before submitting documents to the tax office in order to open a business for pensioners at home is the choice of a tax system. It is on the correctness of preliminary calculations of the profitability of a future business, the choice of a tax payment scheme that largely determines both the success and the level of profit brought by a future business. In most cases, when opening a private entrepreneur, a pensioner should pay attention to a simplified taxation system. 
Profitable Business Options
To organize a business for senior citizens, a future entrepreneur of advanced age must first think carefully over everything. The main thing is the type of activity that will need to be addressed.Probably the best occupation will be what a person has been doing throughout his life at his main job, or a hobby that has spent a lot of free time. It is clear that the invaluable experience gained over many years will increase the likelihood of success of the activity.
Craft
A lot of people are fond of making various crafts from a variety of materials - wood, metal, beads, leather and the like. Such creativity can bring a good income. Hand made things are very popular today among wealthy and not so citizens.
If the ability to make various products for interior decoration, household items, toys, etc. brings good results, you can offer your solutions as goods, for example, for a gift shop. Many turn their attention to such a business for women seniors as knitting things to order or making original jewelry. Men can pay attention to the development of such a craft as decorative furniture. Such classes are almost guaranteed to provide an increase in pension, the size of which will depend on the level of skill and efforts. 
Small shop
If a pensioner is active or, even better, has found like-minded people from his circle of acquaintances who are not averse to doing an interesting job, and the assortment of manufactured goods is quite wide, he can think about opening a small outlet. This will allow us to sell not only our own manufactured products, but also increase revenue by reselling various goods that can be purchased at wholesale stores or markets.
Tutoring
Almost every elderly person in the asset has an important thing that can allow you to open a business for a pensioner without investment and without any problems. It is a matter of great life experience and deep knowledge in a certain area of human activity. This can be used to make a profit.
Applying practical knowledge and new ideas, you can engage in teaching activities at various courses or recruit students in private. Former teachers, as well as university teachers, can practically prepare students to improve the educational level and grades in the school in a particular subject, and prepare applicants for entrance exams to the university.
Own hobby training
The life of modern people is not limited to the school curriculum. In order to educate people at home, it is not necessary to be a former or practicing teacher. Hobbies such as playing musical instruments, chess, knitting, cooking unusual dishes, etc., are of interest to a wider circle of people than exact sciences. And many people of advanced age due to their experience are quite capable of teaching others different types of activities.
In addition to solving the financial issue, teaching other people their own hobby brings emotional pleasure, especially when students show good results.
Agriculture
Many people own summer cottages or live in their own house and have a garden garden. The implementation of the harvest brought by trees and shrubs can be a good help in retirement. It doesn't matter if vegetables, fruits or berries are grown for sale. If an elderly person loves nature and possesses the necessary farming skills, getting good results is a matter of several months. Such a business is very common for retirees, which means that it gives a good economic effect. 
Growing flowers
Quite interesting in terms of revenue generation is such activities as growing flowers for sale. By the way, for this type of own business it is not necessary to own a large piece of land.In small volumes, even an ordinary balcony or a loggia of an average apartment is suitable for growing flowers of certain varieties. 
Conclusion
Of course, the business sphere for older people is not limited to the above ideas. These are just general hints of the fact that you should not “give up on yourself” - life does not end with retirement.
What kind of business to open, the pensioner will have to decide for himself, having considered his capabilities and assessing his own skills and knowledge in one or another type of activity.