This research aimed to: 1) develop an elderly quality of life promotion model for self-reliance through community product processing: 2) develop community product processing to promote income of the elderly and: 3) promote coexistence activities among the elderly. The research was qualitative research using document examination an in-depth interview with 10 key informants group discussion and non-participant observation. The results showed that: 1) the development of an elderly quality of life promotion model for self-reliance through community product processing encouraged the participation in the community product processing among the elderly: 2) the community products were processed in the community to promote income for the elderly and: 3) the community in collaboration with the municipality promoted the coexistence of the elderly. A new model discovered from the development of quality of life using processing community products was an integration of community knowledge management in processing community products based on the sufficiency economy philosophy. This research led to new the findings as follows. 1) The community participation from the associates included community municipality government organizations educational institutes and supporting organizations. 2) The products focused on herbal products for the elderly that were found in the households easily found and were medicinal plants for cooking such as Moringa lemongrass pandanus Indian Gooseberry etc. 3) The guidelines for promoting activities in coexistence of the elderly included elderly school activities volunteer activities Buddhist important day activities traditional activities and community enterprise members.

The objective of this research is to study and analyze social support including search for social support models for the. It is a qualitative research that collects data from in-depth individual interviews with 15 elderly and group discussions with elderly representatives and other 12 involved persons. The data collection also includes field observations and notes. We use content-based data analysis interpretation and describing from the phenomena that occurred. The results reveal that: Social support for the elderly’s well-being based on (1) self-level or self-reliance that was an attempt to help themselves as much as possible. This to make oneself feel valued to have self-empowerment and to develop oneself. 2) Family level is the closeness with the elderly who plays an important role in problems solving of physical mental and social suffering as well as to promote happiness of the elderly in all dimensions. (3) Community and local level is the cooperation of groups of people involved in implementation of the care and support the happiness creation that is consistent with family and community problems. There are 3 characteristics of social support models for the elderly’s well-being: (1) Family characteristic which is the closeness of all family members. It takes love gratitude coordination or asking for help as well as the support from both inside and outside the family in every way. (2) The nature of the community is a cooperation and coordination the benefits of both the family and stakeholders in the community in order to strengthen the social support for family quality. It focuses on social participation and well-being development. (3) Characteristic of social networks is an integrated work of 3 large groups that consists of health social service and local community. These attend to care and social support at the family level area level and provincial level emphasizing the policy integration to practice.

The purpose of this Participatory Action Research (PAR) was to study the guidelines for creating recreational activities to promote health for the elderly and to create a practical guide for organization of recreational activities for senior citizens in Thamakham Subdistrict Municipality Mueang Kanchanaburi Kanchanaburi. This research project had a sample group of 40 volunteer participants who were aged 60 or over were able to take care of themselves and were inhabitants of Moo 1 Moo 2 and Moo 5 in Thamakham Subdistrict Municipality Mueang Kanchanaburi Kanchanaburi. The data-collecting instruments for this research were 12 recreational activity programs for promoting health for the elderly and structured interviews of the participants. Data analysis was performed by calculating percentages means and standard deviations. The results of the research project: 1. Most of the seniors were female married have no career have one to three family members and have medical problems. Most of them participated in community activities. 2. Most of the seniors have a medium level of basic knowledge in promoting health for the elderly people. 3. The level of point of view of the seniors about the purpose of creating recreational activities to promote health for the elderly was much more than average. 4. The level of satisfaction of the seniors about managing recreational activities to promote health for the elderly was much more than average. 5. The level of overall satisfaction of the seniors about recreational activities to promote health for the elderly was much more than average. 6. Suggestions were received from the senior citizens that the schedule for the activities should be Monday to Friday between 8.00 A.M. to 12.00 A.M. and that the venues for the activities should be dependent on the organizers and that there should be field trips. 7. Creation of a practical guide containing 12 activities to organize recreational activities for seniors in Thamakham Subdistrict Municipality Mueang Kanchanaburi Kanchanaburi.

This research is a Qualitative Research in the form of Case Study which aims to analyze learning activities and learning activities model to improve the life quality of the elderly by using schools as a base. This focuses on collecting data from indepthinterviews individually from 15 major informants including group discussionswith related 12 representatives from elderly schools who are the master and haveoutstanding learning activities. The elderly schools include the Elderly School of Plubplachai Sub-district U Thong District Suphan Buri Province the Elderly School of Tumbon Nonglan Tamaga District Kanchanaburi Province and the Elderly School of Yannawa District Bangkok. In addition observation and field notes are used in collecting data. The data was analyzed by using content analysis and occurring phenomena descriptive analysis The results indicated that things to consider about learning activities for improving the quality of life of the elderly by using schools as a base include (1) the background of the elderly school (2) Purpose or intention of learning management (3) the elderly school learning content or curriculum (4) Process patterns or methods of learning management (5) Assessment or impact. These are diverse under the concept of establishing an elderly school and the learning activities are organized by the interests of the elderly and those activities are important for their livelihood. There are 2 characteristics of the learning activity model for improving the quality of life of the elderly which are (1) It is a learning activity model with institution curriculum and lessons. The activity is an activity that encourages networks in community to be speakers to transfer knowledge or lecture and practice via various learning tools. (2 ) It is a learning activity model of the villagers. It is an alternativeactivity for learners. It is an empirical learning model that is demonstrated and then acted such as career development activities ones own well-being activities and other activities. Moreover there are other learning activity models i.e. (1) It is a learning activity model based on what should be known about current lifestyle and world society. (2) It is a learning activity model based on what must be known about benefits and protection. (3) It is a learning activity model based on curious things which response to learning needs based on learners life and cultural basis of the local community. The result of this research is to be a guideline in order to promote operations and enhance the potential of the elderly that are suitable to the context of the area group and expand the learning management by using the elderly school as a base.

The purposes of this study were to investigate the component and competency model for learning in digital technology of the elderly in Bangkok. The sample of this study consisted of 385 elderly people in Bangkok. The instruments used in research were questionnaire and interview. The statistics used for data analysis were percentage arithmetic mean standard deviation and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). The findings of the data analysis indicate that there were 6 components with 36 variables of competency for learning in digital technology of the elderly in Bangkok which can describe the combined variance at 64.305 percent. All components were as follow: 1 component of the knowledge competency to identify the learning course 3 components of the skill competency to identify the learning objective learning management and promote learning. Finally 2 other components of the personal competency to identify the background of learner and physical and mental fitness.