Abstract:
The purposes of this research are: 1) To study the sustainable care for elderly with disabilities of local administrative organizations in Lamphun Province. 2) To study the role of the local government in the sustainable care for elderly with disabilities of local administrative organizations in Lamphun Province. 3) To develop a community mechanism system for sustainable care for elderly with disabilities of local administrative organizations in Lamphun Province. The Research are used qualitative study and action research. The sampling researching amount 82 key informants that can be divided into three groups as: a group of local administrative organizations, a group of leader/elderly student and a group of network/relevant organizations for taking to develop a community mechanism system for sustainable care for elderly with disabilities.
The result of study is found that:
The local administrative organizations care for the elderly with disabilities consisting of 1) caring for the elderly according to the law; 2) caring for the elderly by local government organizations. It studies an information on the elderly leading to the development of welfare activities and enhancing life skills as; to get knowledge, promoting health and lifestyle, to make income, to help in the special assistance, promotion of wisdom and arts and cultures, promoting emotional well-being and powering the lead and creating the mind for achieving physical, mental, social and economic happiness, mindfulness and intelligence that will enable the elderly to live happily in society.
The roles of local government organizations as; the roles of leadership that support policy and action, the role of supporting the budget through budget allocation, the role of coordination with agencies government/private organizations, the roles of advocacy/empowerment that support activities, the roles of network for making a memorandum of agreement (MOU) with government/non-governmental organizations and others related.
The development of community mechanism for the elderly with disabilities consists of: 1) study and problem analysis from elderly groups joining various parties 2) curriculum development by focusing on four factors; the elderly needed, necessary for life, increase knowledge and Increase life skills 3) curriculum design for lifelong learning with cooperation with various networks 4) strengthening networks to joint management 5) analysis of knowledge for promoting and supporting the quality of elderly life in the physical health, mental health, social health and intellectual health.
The movement of community mechanisms for sustainable care of the elderly with disabilities has the characteristics of "Bovorn" that be caused by community groups/partners to promote and support work with the same goal. It improves the quality of elderly life to realize the value, social engagement, social responsibility, skills training for self-development and volunteering to lead the aging society into a truly happy in society.