Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the needs of social welfares of elderly in pakhiep subdistrict Administrative Organization, Khumuang District, Buriram Province in 3 aspects: allowance relief, elderly hygiene, and group activity supporting. The samples were 285 people who are at least 60 years old, selected by using the Table of Krejcei & Morgan and simple random sampling, respectively. The research instrument used for collecting the data was a 3-part questionnaire, including checklist, 6-rating scale, and open-ended form with its reliability at 0.9406 The statistics used for analyzing the collected data were percentage, mean, and standard deviation.
The findings were as follows:
1. The needs of social welfares of elderly in Pakhiep Subdistrict Administrative Organization, Khumuang District, Buriram Province as a whole were at highest levels. When considering each aspect, it was found that allowance relief was as high level; whereas, elderly hygiene and group activity supporting were at highest levels. The ranking from the highest to the lowest mean scores were elderly hygiene, group activity supporting, and allowance relief, respectively.
2.The additional opinions and suggestions with the highest percentages were people do need the allowance relief payment at beginning of each month, followed by they do need the Subdistrict Administrative Organization takes the elderly to have sight seeing at the tourist attractions, and the morality and meditation on Buddhist holy days be provided, respectively.