Abstract
Thailand is becoming an elderly society like many countries in the world. The number of elderly people is increasing continuously every year. In order to enable the elderly to live with good quality of life in the rapidly changing society, knowledge and information related to their health and living factors are considered to be necessary for them. Therefore, this study was carried out in order to develop a model of knowledge provision for promoting quality of life of the elderly in rural areas of the country. The samples were drawn from every region of the country which included 480 elderly people, 480 elderly caretakers, and 160 people representing the community leaders, community committee members and staff of local government agencies. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed for data collection. The study found that there were five areas of knowledge for promoting quality of life of the elderly: physical health, mental health, social relationship, economic, and learning. The model of knowledge provision to the elderly synthesized from the study could enable the elderly to gain necessary knowledge deemed useful for promoting their quality of life. The elderly, the elderly care caretakers and related people were found to be satisfied with the model.
Highlights
Thailand entered aging society over ten years ago
Objectives of the Study 1) To study present situation and problems faced by the elderly in rural areas relating to opportunity in receiving useful knowledge and information, 2) To find out needs of the elderly in rural areas and related people on knowledge that will promote quality of life of the elderly and identify guidelines for providing such knowledge to them through distance learning method, 3) To develop a knowledge provision model for developing quality of life of elderly people in rural areas by distance learning method
The study found that elderly people in rural areas of Thailand needed knowledge and information in five areas in order to promote their quality of life in the present society
Summary
Thailand entered aging society over ten years ago. The number of elderly population is continuously increasing year after year. In the year 2017, there were 10.22 million of the elderly out of the whole population of 66.18 million or 15.45 percent. In 2019, there were 11.14 million of the elderly out of 66.55 million of the whole population or 15.45 percent. It is expected that the number of these elderly citizens will be about 15.12 million and 17.58 million in the years 2025 and 2030 respectively (Department of Older Persons, 2020)
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