Preparing for Entering the Aging Society with the Potential of People in Thapa Subdistrict, Banpong District, Ratchaburi Province
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The purpose of research were as follows: 1)study the readiness for entering the aging society with the potential of the people 2)To study the knowledge of the people towards being a potential elderly person 3)To study factors related to the readiness for the elderly in the people of Thapa subdistrict, Banpong district, Ratchaburi province. The instrument used in the research was a questionnaire Check the accuracy of the content by experts and the reliability was calculated by measuring internal consistency in term of Cronbach’s alpha method which equal to 0.912. The researcher used the study method by collecting data from 377samples and the sample size followed the table of Krejcie and Morgan. Data were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson's correlation coefficient. The study indicated that most of the samples were female, aged among 50-59 years old, married, more than half had 2 children, graduated with a bachelor's degree and have an income of 30,001-45,000 baht per month. Being a senior citizen and an elderly person with a high level of knowledge. The preparation characteristics of Thapa Subdistrict population Banpong District Ratchaburi Towards entering the elderly age, found that sample is a high level of preparation in general in the economic aspect, next is psychological and social and the body, respectively. Factors related to the preparing for entering the aging society were education level, average income per month, knowledge of elderly and knowledge of potential elderly with statistic significant at .05.
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