Long Term Elderly Care Strategy of Sub-district Health Promoting Hospitals Sukhothai Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to 1) study the states, the problems and the problems related to long term elderly care of Sub-district health promoting hospitals in Sukhothai Province, 2) develop the strategy for long term elderly care of Sub-district health promoting hospitals in Sukhothai Province, 3) try out and assess the strategy for long term elderly care of Sub-district health promoting hospitals in Sukhothai Province. The research was divided into 3 steps. The first step was to study the states, the problems and the factors related to long term elderly care of Sub-district health promoting hospitals in Sukhothai Province, the research instrument was a questionnaire conducted with 113 person and focus group discussion in 17 person. The second step was to develop the strategy for long term elderly care of Sub-district health promoting hospitals in Sukhothai Province. The research instrument were interviewing successful Sub-district health promoting hospitals in long term elderly care. Workshop technique was the instrument to analyze the environment and set the long term elderly care strategic draft. Connoisseurship was the method to check strategic quality. The third step was to try out and assess the strategy. The research instrument was focus group to find the strategic experiment. Assess form was used to find the strategic assessment. The developed strategies consisted of the consistency, the appropriateness, the possibility and the utility.

          The research findings were as follows: 1. The states of long term elderly care of Sub-district health promoting hospitals in Sukhothai Province was found that the data was recorded for elderly care carried out for elderly people . For caretaker, it was found that there were the volunteers to take care of elderly people. The volunteers who worked consisted of the volunteers who passed 70 hours of elderly care training and did not pass the training. For the service, it was found that there was the assessment of home health care. There were the referral and monitoring of elderly people at home. There was the visiting of referring elderly people from the hospital. Multidisciplinary team was set to take care of special elderly people. For dental public health, it was found that elderly dental health was checked at least once a year. For care system, it was found that the performance of elderly care was carried out to be in accordance with the standard of elderly care. The high level problems were found that for caretaker, the amount of caretakers were insufficient with the increasing of elderly people and the caretaker’s skills were not good enough. The factors related to elderly care were as follows: for internal factor, it was found that personal, budget, materials and management were important for elderly care and internal factors which consisted of economy, society and culture politic and technology effected an efficient elderly care. 2. The strategy for long term elderly care of Sub-district health promoting hospitals in Sukhothai Province consisted of 8 strategies 3. The assessment of long term elderly care of Sub-district health promoting hospitals in Sukhothai Province was found that majority of strategies had the consistency, the appropriateness, the possibility and the utility.