Quality of Life in Thai Elderly

Abstract

Quality of life of the elderly, as equivalent to expression stated by the World Health Organization as "Active and Healthy Aging" which means "Sufficiency Happiness" comprising physically, mentally, socially and spiritually healthy as well as capability to live with productive life and independently capable to perform interpersonal contribution to one another among their neighbors within their communities. They should be assurance of their security in relation to health, family, environment and community. These scenarios for the quality of life of the elderly needed to be well prepared since the earlier ages of the people at least when they were school children or teenagers. The teenagers should be empowered to know how to actively engage in responsibilities of taking care of the elderly in their own families as well as their own communities.