Abstract:
The purposes of this descriptive research were to study demographic data, depression, cognitive status, activity daily living, and needs of older people who residence in private nursing home and comparison needs with sex, age, marital status, living arrangement, physical profile, cognitive status, depression, and activity daily living. Quantitative and qualitative data collection were carried out. The sample included older people who residence in nursing home in Bangkok Metropolis and Vinicities more than 3 months. Simple random sampling was used and total number of 140 older peoples were included in this study. The research instruments for quantitative data collection were demographic questionnaires, ADL Assessment, MMSE-T, TGDS, and Needs questionnaires. Qualitative data were collected using semi-structured interview were used to collect the data. Quantitative data were analyzed for frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, and one-way ANOVA at level of .05 and content analysis method was applied for qualitative data analysis. Major findings were as follow: 1. The majority of residents were females widowed aged ranging from 60-74 years old and co-residence with adult children/grandchild prior moved to institution. Fifty-four percents had been diagnosed with hypertension, fortysix percents had very severely disabled and totally dependent, four percents had depression, and two percents had cognitive impairment. 2. The residents had high level of needs (Xbar = 91.57, SD = 17.65), ranging from high to low need levels were: managing medication, safety and complication prevention, medical / nursing care, rehabilitation, and needs for ADL assistance. 3. The level of activities of daily living and level of needs were found significantly difference at level of .05, but sex, age group, marital status, living arrangement, physical profile, cognitive status, depression and level of need were found no significantly differences. 4. Qualitative data were found that the needs were extended to the facilities assistant, for example, private area, laundry service, and assistant for medical follow-up from care staffs.