Abstract:
The research on Social welfare needs of the elderly in Laemchabang City Municipality,
Sriracha District, Chonburi Province has the objectives to: (1) study the welfare needs of the elderly in
Laemchabang City Municipality, Sriracha District, Chonburi Province; and (2) study the comparison of
the welfare needs of the elderly in Laemchabang City Municipality, Sriracha District, Chonburi
Province classified by personal factors, collected data from the sample of the elderly in Laemchabang
City Municipality, a total of 200 people, a tool used in the study were questionnaires, the statistics used
in data analysis in the research was descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean and
standard deviation, and comparative analysis of the welfare needs of the elderly in Laemchabang City
Municipality, Sriracha District, Chonburi Province by using inferential statistics such as t-test and Oneway ANOVA, as well as Multilateral comparison by using LSD (Least Significant difference test) at the
significance level .05.
The result found that the social welfare needs of the elderly in Laemchabang City
Municipality, Sriracha District, Chonburi Province, in overall, it was found that the social welfare needs
of the elderly were at a high level in all aspects, when considering each aspect, it was found that health
and medical care has the most needs, followed by income, housing, service creation, social security and
recreation respectively; the comparison of the social welfare needs of the elderly in Laemchabang City
Municipality, which have different gender, the social welfare needs were not different, but the elderly
who have different age, marital status, education level, occupation, income and accommodation
characteristics, the social welfare needs have different statistical significance at the level of .05.