Elderly Welfare Management of Local Administrative Organizations in Thailand

Abstract

This research was supported by the Faculty of Social Sciences, Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. The research objective was to study the relationship between elderly opinion on management factor and elderly opinion on the result of elderly welfare management of local administrative organizations in Thailand. The research applied the quantitative method by conducting the survey research using the questionnaire to collect the data from a sample of 358 elderly persons in 6 selected local administrative organizations in Thailand. The data collected were, then, analyzed by descriptive statistics and correlation analysis. From descriptive statistics analysis, it was found that the elderly opinion on overall management factor including every component (leadership, budget, personnel, and public relations) were appropriated at the high level, while the elderly opinion on overall result of elderly welfare management including every component (health and medical treatment, income, housing, recreation, social security, and creation of supporting network) were appropriated at the moderate level. From correlation analysis, it was found that there were significant positive relationship between elderly opinion on overall management factor including every component and elderly opinion on overall result of elderly welfare management including every component. It is recommend that there should be improvement every component of management factor, then effectiveness of elderly welfare management of local administrative organizations will increase.