Lifestyle of Active Aging :

Three year consecutively on healthy older person

Abstract

       The aim of this narrative research with narrative inquiry was to determine lifestyle of older people age more than 80 years old. Participants was purposive sampling from Thai people age more than 80 years old who have no disease and independent for daily live activities. An exclusion criterion was sport person. Data were collected by in-depth interview. Data were analyzed by narrative analysis in which the analyses of data were conducted together with data collection.

      The findings were as followed. This aging were female with age 81 years old, Buddhist and have bachelor degree on educational. Participant provided information that her father was Chinese clan and mother was Thai. There were four children in her family. Her husband was teacher and died at year of 67. She has 4 children, two were male and two were female. Her life styles leading to active aging were love to learn-love to work-follow family target, investigate the sickness early has an effect on control the sickness, dancing-yoga regularly-taking care her mind leading to no sickness, low salt diet-increase portion of vegetables and fruit, lastly positive thinking and love in every work, and be happy with every jobs.