Abstract
This study aims to analyse the funeral welfare for the Muslim elders and to suggest guidelines regarding the funeral welfare management for the Muslim elders. The guidelines might help stakeholders to investigate and manage the welfare more effective and stable through participatory process. Further, this would help the group to get more members which would lead to a quality and sustainable funeral welfare for Muslim elders in the Kayohmati community.The design of this study is mixed method. First, the researchers employed phenomenological research to explore the community’s life experience for the primary data. The researchers investigated the meaningful aspects and understandings through conversations, in-depth interviews, focus-group interviews, and questionnaires. The researchers used content synthesis to form guidelines of the funeral welfare management, which was classifying and categorizing topics and arranging concepts. The qualitative data was carefully reconfirmed, and the quantitative data was analysed into frequency, average, and percentage. Moreover, to conduct the research professionally the researchers followed research ethics firmly and this research had been approved for research ethics code of conduct.
 The findings regarding needs of the funeral welfare were as follows: the elder members who are low-income need career workshops to support their finance. Furthermore, it was found that community leader plays a key role in facilitating and encouraging collaboration among the community, government, and academic sectors to form public policy. Therefore, the government sector should collaborate with the community which the people could express their performance and self-autonomy and the findings confirmed that we can develop it to public policy and guidelines for the welfare founders, committees, and members to improve the welfare’s management system. Also, there could be guidelines to increase medical welfare and income for the elders. The novelty or originality of this studyproposed the funeral welfare management model is getting from the management of Muslim welfare that is sustainable and fit with the local context, religion, knowledge, self-value, and belief in a particular area
Highlights
In the past, Thai people had a life span of around 50 years, yet in the present, it is 73 years and it will be expanding to 80 years in the future
The researchers, government sector, and community agreed that a manager of the welfare fund was selected by the government sector who have a certain period in the position
This study: Development Practices to Welfare Funeral Management for the Elderly in the Muslim Way in Kayohmati community, Bajo district, Narathiwat province, the researchers set the scope as follows: (1.) Content This study aims to explore guidelines in developing the funeral welfare management for the elderly in the Muslim ways, Kayohmati community, Bajo district, Narathiwat province. (2.) Population and sample group (2.1) The population was 713 members which were 1. 700 active members 2. 12 committees (2 per village, 6 villages) 3. 1 founder. (2.2) A sample group was 263 members by using Taro Yamane table (Yamane, 1973; Podhisita, 2017) (3.) The area was Kayohmati community, Bajo district, Narathiwat province, (4.) The duration was from August – December 2017
Summary
Thai people had a life span of around 50 years, yet in the present, it is 73 years and it will be expanding to 80 years in the future. (National Statistical Office, 2017; White, 1982) In 2559, there were 10 percent or 9 million 65’s year’s old elders in Thailand and it was increasing continuously. This shows a rapid change in the elder population. The case of death, there is 2,000-baht bath funeral support for low-income elders. Each member will earn 10,000 baht for the funeral expense including bathing, wrapping, praying, carrying, and burying the deceased This welfare fund offers benefits more than the governments and people in the community trust in the management system which leads to an increase of the welfare fund member. All the mentioned stakeholders brainstormed and suggested guidelines to maintain and improve the welfare sustainably
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