Social Welfare Management Model for Elderly Better Life Quality Development

Abstract

   The purposes of this research were to develop and to assess the social welfare model for improving the quality of life of elderly. The process of this study was divided into two stages.
   The first stage of the study was to develop the model of social welfare for boosting the quality of life in older ages. The data using for the draft of the social welfare model of elderly was collected from related literature reviews and lesson learned visualizing from four excellent senior citizen clubs: 1) the senior citizen club of Khaokaew Subdistrict, 2) the senior citizen club of Khaophrabat Subdistrict, 3) the senior citizen club of Phipun Hospital, and 4) the senior citizen club of Ban Thungnamai Health Promoting Hospital. Evaluating results of using the model in overall was in the high level (x̄= 4.44, S.D = 0.20).
   The second stage was to apply the results from the study in the first stage in the area of Khaophrabat Subdistrict, Chian Yai District, Nakhonsithammarat Province. The results indicated that: the level of satisfaction toward the model of social welfare for boosting the quality of life in older ages in overall was rated as the high level (x̄= 4.98, S.D = 0.14). As considering into each aspects, the economic aspect of social welfare model for boosting the quality of life in older people was rated as the highest level (x̄= 4.98, S.D = 0.14) followed by the facilities aspect of social welfare model for boosting the quality of life in older people (x̄= 4.94, S.D = 0.24) and ended with the recreation aspect of social welfare model for boosting the quality of life in older people (x̄= 3.58, S.D = 0.73).