The Main Components of a Non-formal Education Program Using Neo-humanist Moral Principles to Enhance Ethics in Caring the Elderly for the Foreseen Aging Society

Abstract

Change in population structure would cause social problems, particularly in the foreseen aging society will directly affect the elderly in the near future. Most senior people will meet degenerative changes including physical, psychological, emotional and social resulting in health problems. The social change from extended family to single family and health problem cause the rapid growth of elderly caretaker career. Nursing care to seniors nowadays are various problems and conflicts between elderly caretakers and the elders especially ethics in caring the elderly. The purpose of this research is to develop a training program to enhance ethics in caring the elderly and to study the effects of the training program. The design of this research was qualitative study, which data were triangulated by attending class of training, reviewing literature and depth interviewing. The result showed that the program by using Boyle's non-formal education model (1.Determine service customers 2.Identify content of the subjects 3.Design leaning methods 4.Implement the education activity plan 5.Evaluate the program) combined with 10 elements of Neo-humanist moral principles (1.Ahimsa 2.Satya 3.Asteya 4.Brahmacarya 5.Aparigraha 6.Shaoca 7.Santosa 8.Tapas 9.Savadhyaya 10.Iishvara) was suitable. In conclusion, it appropriates for training in ethics of caring the elderly due to the flexibility, diversification, timelessness and calmness. Furthermore, the universal love will be a sustainability of ethics in caring the elderly.