A DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE PROVISION FOR THE ELDERLY’S LIFE QUALITY DURING ๒๐๑๗-๒๐๒๑

Abstract

This doctorial thesis has 4 objectives as follows: (1) to study past and present situations of the elderly’ s life quality conducted by government agencies during the period from the first to 11th National Economic and Social Development Plan (during B.E. 2504-2559), (2) to study the governmental administration regarding the elderly’ s life quality during the first year of the 12fth National Economic and Social Development Plan (during B.E. 2560-2564), (3) to find out the trend of related impacts resulted from ageing society at the end of the 12th National Economic and Social Development Plan (B.E. 2560-2564), and (4) to find out the governmental administration and adaptation regarding the public service provision for the elderly at the end of the 12th National Economic and Social Development Plan (B.E. 2560-2564). The results of the research were as follows: (1) various agencies indicated the same cause of being an ageing society, while the underqualified performance regarding the elderly’s life quality development was the performance under “the strategy of preperation for getting older with quality”; 2)  Department of Older Person Affair, Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, is a major agency for a present task of the elderly’s life quality development, towards a mechanism of committee, development centers, and ministerial networking, while, the 12th National Economic and Social Development Plan (B.E. 2560-2564) is initiating an explicit focus on a task of the elderly’s life quality development;
3) the impacts of ageing society would be existing problems occurred in the past and present days, and a forthcoming problems following the future circumstances and 4) the governmental adaptation regarding the elderly’s life quality development at the end of the said  National Plan should be 4 dimensions of new public service provision and 6 proactive strategies.