THE MODEL FOR IMPROVING THE ELDERLY QUALITY OF LIFE: TUNGLUANG SUBDISTRICT, PHONPISAI DISTRICT, NONGKHAI PROVINCE

Abstract

This research aimed to study the levels and factors affecting the elderly quality of life and developing a model for improving the elderly quality of life in Thung Luang Subdistrict, PhonPhisai District, Nong Khai Province. The research and development model used in quantitative and qualitative terms, divided into 3 phases. The population were elderly consisted of 744, a sample group of 117 elderly people, and an experimental group of 30 people. The Inferential Statistics used for Regression Analysis and Repeated Measures Multivariate Analysis of Variance: Repeated Measures (MANOVA), setting the level of statistical significance at .05. Result: The elderly sample group was male 53.85 %, female 46.15 %, most were in the age group 60 - 74 years, 69.23 %, (  = 69.84, S.D. = 8.53). The level of self-care requisites of the elderly was at a very good level (  = 2.62, S.D. = 0.30), level of awareness and access to the legal rights of the elderly was at a moderate level (  = 2.24, S.D. = 0.41), the opinions about the level of health services received by the elderly was very good level (  = 2.61, S.D. = 0.32), the quality of life level for the elderly was moderate level (  = 2.49, S.D. = 0.31), The Factors affecting the quality of life of the elderly include self-care requisites of the elderly (Beta = 0.559) and medical treatment service (Beta = 0.205), respectively, both variables can together predict the quality of the elderly at 54.50 percent ( P-value <.0001). The model for Improving the elderly quality of life in Thung Luang Subdistrict had 3 activity groups, 13 activities, 1) the increasing the potential for self-care requisites to improve the elderly quality of life, totaling 9 activities, 2) the developing the medical care service system for the elderly in Thung Luang Subdistrict Health Promoting Hospital, 1 activity. 3) the developing access to legal rights for the quality of life of the elderly, 3 activities. The results of the statistical analysis found that the mean vectors of the 3 variables between the 2 measurements were different with statistical significance .05 (Pillai's Trace, Wilks' Lambda, Hotelling's Trace = 0.998, 0.002, 613.677, 613.677, P-value <0.00), indicating that the model for improving the elderly quality of life that was created can improve the elderly quality of life.