Career Development and Quality of Life Promotion for the Elderly in the Community of National Housing Authority in Bangkok Metropolitan

Abstract

This research is the mixture method. The purposes of the study are 1) to study the condition and quality of life for the elderly at the Community of National Housing Authority in Bangkok Metropolitan. 2) to study needs of career development and provide career training program to those elderly. The 341 samples were the elderly selected by multi-stage and proportionate random sampling.Questionnaire with 0.92 reliability and semi-structured interview were the instruments for data collection. The questionnaire returned 300 copies or 87.98%. Data were analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation and content analysis. The results of the study reveal as follows. 1) The condition and quality of life of the elderly could be classified in two main categories. The first one was The Developmental Change of the Elderly. In overall the elderly had Development Change at a moderate level. Mental Change was the first ranking while Perception Change was the last ranking. The second one was The Elderly’s Quality of Life. The result indicated that they had a high level. 2) According to the needs of career development of the elderly, they needed to spend their free time to be useful and also needed to earn income. They had high to highest-esteem and selfperception on their capability in career development. From research results, the majority selected herbal for Thai massage training program to be trained on career development since it was one day short course. The result of training program was shown that the elderly had satisfaction at a high level.