Aging & Social Change: Ninth Interdisciplinary Conference

Abstract

This participatory action research was designed to explore the process of an elderly health care program development at the community level. The researcher acted as a facilitator of the elderly health care in the community. The qualitative data were collected through participation observation and in-depth interview. The participants included health workers, health volunteers, and elders who were selected from twelve elderly health care units in Thailand. Topics included enhancing workforce preparedness through cultural and social responsibility, providing more services of health care to older adults in the communities, such as specific support groups, and increasing inclusive in diversifying methods and participants to improve outcomes for health care quality, partnerships, and communities affected by participatory action research focus on elderly health care perspective at community level.The process of developing and learning in all twelve areas focused on responsible for elderly care in the community. We concluded that there have been stronger collaboration between the elderly care networks in every community, and significant of understanding and awareness of the responsibility for elderly care in the community. We found that each area has a process to develop and drive the system continuously for elderly health care.