Assessment of Quality of Life of the Elderly People in the Elderly School, Mae Chan district, Chiang Rai Province
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BACKGROUND:The elderly school is considered as a form of activities to create the potential for learning and increase necessities of life, health promotion and skills development. At the same time, it is also an area for the elderly people to show their potential by transferring knowledge and experience accumulated to other people for inherit wisdom persist in the community on the basis of community participation and network partners. If the elderly is encouraged to learn appropriately, holistic and systematic for long term bring the elderly have a good quality of life also makes well-being at the end of life. In summary, the elderly school will improve the quality of life the elderly people, and bring results to improve the quality of life of themselves and other elders.
OBJECTIVE:To evaluation of the quality of life for elderly people, to study the factors related to the quality of life of the elderly and to evaluate the development of quality of life among elderly, Mae Chan District, Chiang Rai Province
METHODS: This study was a mix method research design which consists of quantitative research and qualitative research. The sample of the study aged older than 60 years and they are the students from 13 elderly schools in Mae Chan District.Quantitative data were collected for 356 people by using the elderly’s quality of life questionnaire based on WHOQOL–BREF–THAI of the Department of Mental Health. For qualitative data, interview and focus group discussion were conducted among 130 people from elderly schools in Mae Chan district and analyzed by using thematic analysis and triangulation method. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to find the relationship between variables with Spearman's correlation coefficient.
RESULTS: The results showed that the elderly had a good overall quality of life. When considering the quality of life separated by psychological and environmental aspects, most of them were at a good level. In the part of physical health and social relations, mostly at moderate level and found at a low level in social relationship. The factors related with the quality of life in elderly showed that elderly health when compare with people who have same age, sufficient income and expenditure, health of the elderly compared to last year, marital status, school membership for ≤3 years old, frequency of participation in school activities and education level with a statistical significance (p<0.05,r=0.216, 0.179, 0.134, 0.114, 0.109, 0.105 and0.104respectively).
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENATIONS: The elderly who attended the school had a good overall quality of life despite physical illness. It can be seen that the activities in quality of life should be supported in all aspects and focus on building social relationships through the cooperation of the quality-of-life development network, which are seniors club, elderly school, local government organization and various networks.
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