A STUDY OF BASIC ELDERLY CARE NEEDS FOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT TO ENHANCE THE HAPPINESS FOR AGING CARE-GIVERS การศึกษาความต้องการพื้นฐานในการดูแลผู้สูงอายุเพื่อการพัฒนาหลักสูตรเสริมสร้างความสุขสำหรับผู้ดูแลผู้สูงอายุ
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A development of strengthen happiness curriculum by appreciative inquiry process for elderly care giver’ is actually the topic of this study. It has been divided into 4 phases; A study of basic elderly care needs for curriculum development, developing training curriculum for care-giver, implementing, and evaluating the curriculum. And this is the first phase which aims to find out basic elderly care needs for curriculum development. A qualitative research approaches. Data were collected by 2 focus groups discussion. The participants were recruited as the family care givers and the elderly care volunteers in the community,10 people in each group. The research instruments includes 2 brainstorming issues in group discussions were; 1) elderly care guidelines and 2) characteristics of elderly caregivers. Data were analyzed using content analysis. The result was as follows: Elderly care is a burden and a duty. The care includes physical, mental and social needs of person. As for the characteristics of the elderly caregiver was also found the elderly care-givers need practical knowledge and intimate consultant. For achieving the utmost benefit of training, the context knowledge has to be accordingly designed to elderly care-givers’ real-life context and elderly care practice.
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