The livelihood strategies and policy implications for good living standard of population ageing in Thailand

dc.contributor.advisorKasemsarn Chotchakornpant
dc.contributor.authorNatenapist La-iad
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-25T08:20:35Z
dc.date.available2023-01-25T08:20:35Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.issuedBE2559th
dc.descriptionThesis (D.P.A.)--National Institute of Development Administration, 2016th
dc.description.abstractThe study on sustainable livelihood strategies and policy Implication for a good living standard of aging people in Thailand, the researcher applied the sustainable livelihood approach (SLA) from the work of the Department for International Development (Sustainable Livelihood Framework: DFID) by focusing on the relationships between the five major components of sustainable livelihood for aging people. The five major components are the vulnerability context; livelihood assets; livelihood strategy; policies, institutions, processes; and the livelihood outcome. The main objectives of this study include to survey the problems and challenges that aging people in Thailand are being encountered, and to study the policies related to aging people in Thailand In this research, the researcher applied mixed-mode of data collection including qualitative and quantitative methods to answer five research questions, the qualitative study applied in-depth interview and group interviews with the target population, and the documentary research related the work on aging people; the quantitative methodology employed the questionnaire as a tool and face-to-face interview method with the target population who are 60-70 year-old citizens in five main regional provinces with a total of 1,206 samples. The aging people defined the definition of the Good Living Standard as to have good physical and mental health status, to get attention from surrounding people, to obtain assistance from government and community, to have honor and respect, as well as to obtain opportunity to acquire knowledge in understand the senility life. The vulnerability context is the problem for aging people’s livelihood which are the aging people were unable to accept the reality of becoming a senile therefore, it made them to have various of anxieties–unemployment / have no job, have insufficient income to cover their expense, rely on other people, and conflict due to generation gap between people within the family. Likewise, the result of the quantitative study revealed that the vulnerability context has influence on the good living standard of the aging people. The result on the livelihood capitals found that the essential livelihood capitals that help the aging people to keep the status as a valuable human resource of Thai society is the way they display morality and behave as good role models for their children and other people in the community, the result of quantitative study also supported that currently the aging people has overall of the possession/accessibility to livelihood capitals at a “somewhat good” level but there may have differences in terms of advantage– disadvantage of possession/accessibility to utilize the benefits from each category of livelihoods capitals. The major strategies that aging people utilized for their livelihood, the qualitative result revealed that the livelihood strategies were classified in to three categories which are the “Five-Must strategy, the “Five-Preparation Strategy”, and the “Five–Provision Strategy”. Hence, the quantitative study revealed that the aging people who have selected/created a livelihood strategy was at “frequent- do regularly” would have higher level of good living standard and satisfaction with life. Moreover, the qualitative study discovered the essential policies of the structures and processes supporting aging people’s livelihood is the policy promoting health knowledge. Likewise, the major community measure that support aging people’s livelihoods is heath care services for aging people. Suggestion from the overall study leads to the Structures and Processes Policy Management for a Good Living Stand of Aging People. The framework to support aging people’s livelihood in the next phrase is the integrating implementation of all sectors under the same goal which is to create a good living standard for aging people which required the an analysis to classify the vulnerability context for aging people’s livelihood and suggest to categorize the risk as the “preventable risk or problem by the aging people themselves and their family” and the “risk or problem that can be prevented by the system”.th
dc.format.extent340 leavesth
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dc.identifier.doi10.14457/NIDA.the.2016.172
dc.identifier.otherb199207th
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/6263
dc.language.isoength
dc.publisherNational Institute of Development Administrationth
dc.rightsผลงานนี้เผยแพร่ภายใต้ สัญญาอนุญาตครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์แบบ แสดงที่มา-ไม่ใช้เพื่อการค้า-ไม่ดัดแปลง 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)th
dc.subject.otherpopulation ageingth
dc.subject.otherPopulationth
dc.titleThe livelihood strategies and policy implications for good living standard of population ageing in Thailandth
dc.typetext--thesis--doctoral thesisth
mods.genreDissertationth
mods.physicalLocationNational Institute of Development Administration. Library and Information Centerth
thesis.degree.departmentGraduate School of Public Administrationth
thesis.degree.grantorNational Institute of Development Administrationth
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralth
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Public Administrationth
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