Abstract:
This qualitative research has the objectives 1) to study the participation and empowerment of the community health networks in order to develop the operational potential, long-term care for dependable elderly persons with the Best Practice. 2) To analyze factors and conditions of participation and empowerment at the community level health networks to develop potentials of long-term care operation for dependable elderly with Best Practice. 3) To present the model of participation and empowerment at the health networks level community to develop potential of operation for long-term care-dependent elderly. And for documents and field studies from 2 health networks are 1) Kutta Phet Subdistrict Network, Larn Sonthi District, Lopburi Province, and 2) Nog Hua Fan Subdistrict Health Network, Kham Sakaesaeng District, Nakhon Ratchasima Province. For the interviewer, 6 persons from the District Health Board, 16 persons from Community Health network members, 10 dependents elders, and 10 relatives of dependency elderly with a total of 42 persons. Data were collected by observation and In-depth interview. Data analysis uses inductive summary. Once the form has been drafted and organized a forum to return information to the community to check information and exchange knowledge with nearby areas.Then presented to 6 experts for suggestion and improvement. The research found that 1. The participation and empowerment of community health networks for long term care potential development for dependency elderly persons included 1) the participation of network establishment process. 2) The participation of network management (planning, organization, leading and controlling). 3) The participation of operations such as informing or receiving information, finding problems and setting priorities, finding the cause of the problems, problem solving, evaluating and receiving benefits). 4) The learning process included the empowerment education, training and various learning 5) resource supporting and 6) positive reinforcement. 2. The factors and condition analysis that affected to the participation and empowerment of community health networks for long term care potential development for dependency elderly persons included 1) the working system of unity district health team, community participation, appreciation and quality, resource sharing and human development, and essential care). 2) The factors and condition that happening in district levels were empowered community health networks. 3) The factors and condition that happening in subdistrict levels were empowered community health networks. 3. The model developing of the participation and empowerment of community health networks for long term care potential development for dependency elderly persons that obtained from synthesis and developing model from professional suggestion included 1) the participation of network establishment process. 2) The participation of network management (planning, organization, leading and controlling). 3) The participation of operations and the participation (informing or receiving information, finding problems and set priority the problems, find the cause the problems, solve the problems, evaluation and benefits receiving). 4) The learning process included the empowerment education, training and various learning 5) resource supportting and 6) positive reinforcement. The condition of model using must be a rural area.