ELDERLY HOLISTIC WELL-BEING PROMOTION OF SAMUT PRAKAN PROVINCIAL PUBLIC HEALTH BY APPLYING BUDDHADHAMMA

Abstract

The objectives of this research article were: 1. To study the holistic health of the elderly under the supervision of the Public Health Office of Samut Prakan Province. 2. To study the factors affecting the holistic health of the elderly in Samut Prakan Province. 3. To present holistic health promotion for the elderly under the supervision of the Samut Prakan Provincial Public Health Office by application of Buddhadhamma, conducts by the mixed research methods. integrated the quantitative research, data were collected from elderly people in the socially addicted group. In Samut Prakan Province, there were 110,165 people and a random sampling using Taro Yamane’s formula, resulted in a sample size of 399 people. The research instrument was a questionnaire, analyzed by finding frequency, percentage and standard deviation. The qualitative research section, data were collected from 18 key informants or people. Data were collected using in-depth-interview script. Data were analyzed using descriptive content interpretation.

The research results were found that: 1. Elderly holistic well-being, by overall, was at a high level, sorted in following order, namely, physical well-being, mental well-being, social well-being, and intellectual well-being. 2. Factors affecting the elderly holistic well-being were found that management, consisting of materials, money, people, and management. Bhavana 4 principle consisted of, Pannabhavana, Silabhavana, Gayabhavana, Cittabhavana, affected the promotion of elderly holistic wellbeing of Samut Prakan Provincial Public Health Office at statistically significant level of 0.05. 3. Promoting the holistic well-being of the elderly under the supervision of the Samut Prakan Provincial Public Health Office by applying Buddhadhamma, namely, physical development, resulting in “physical wellbeing”, mental development resulting in “mental well-being”, the development of percepts to bring about “social well-being”, and development of wisdom brought about “intellectual well-being”. The management was used as the basis for promoting the elderly holistic well-being of Samut Prakan Provincial Public Health Office regarding people or personnel, budget, materials and management.