Abstract:
Research on the National strategic for aging condition management in Thailand: Social welfare arrangement
for the security of the elderly adopted the Mixed Methods Research using the In-depth interviews and questionnaire survey
developed by the researcher to collect data from the elderly populations during April 1 October 31 2017.This qualitative
study had researched on documents and interviews from those with knowledge and understanding on the elderly issues.
It was found from the results that Thailand had entered into aging society since B.E. 2548. It was expected to
become the completely aging society in B.E.2564and the top aging society within 2578. According to the survey on the
elderly aging condition, most of them had good health with the excellence level of healthy behavior. They were educated to
use computer and received the information from television. They lived with their children and grand children with the
excellence level of family relationship. They had income from elderly allowance, most of them had no saving amount and the
activity that most of the elderly attended was making merit. Most of them received social service from the elderly allowance
as well as the support on justice facilitation. Elderly impacts can be divided into the national impacts such as the impact
toward GDP, the potential of business growth, national load budget, saving, workforce and adaptation in the business sector.
Individual impacts were for instance, elderly income, health problems, problem of knowledge, social problem, mental
problem, physical environment, accommodation and elderly caregiver.
For the social welfare arrangement in aging society, the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security
was the core unit to process on the elderly measurement. Initially, the government arranged to have the Old age home Bang
Kae in B.E.2496 and there was the central regulation to use for the elderly social welfare arrangement which was the
National Elderly Act B.E. 2546, Social Welfare Promotion Act B.E. 2546 and the national development framework which
was in the 20years national strategic (B.E.2561-2580), National economic and social development plan issue no. 12
(B.E.2560-2564) and these were processed according to the supporting measure for the aging society according to the cabinet
resolution on November 8th B.E. 2559. The problems and limitations to bring the policy or the measurement of Social
welfare arrangement for the security of the elderly to practice were for instance, elderly health caregiver, security of income,
facilities for the convenience of elderly, sources of aging welfare fund, security of the elderly welfare system, the particular
laws for the elderly social welfare and the proper guidelines for the Social welfare arrangement for the security of the elderly.
The strategic suggestions were for example, development of relationship in family, adding the elderly caregiver potential,
development of elderly employment system, development of public service network and the elderly social welfare
management.