DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE QUALITY OF AGING IN THE CONTEXT OF BUDDHA DHAMMA OF AGING SCHOOL IN CHIANG MAI PROVINCE

Abstract

This research has 3 objectives included 1) to study the concept of development of quality of life of older persons in Buddhism, 2) to study the concept and background of the elderly school of Waing Sub-district Administrative Organization, Fang District, Chiang Mai Province, and 3) to analyze the development of quality of life of older persons in the Buddhist context of the elderly school of Waing Sub-district Administrative Organization, Fang District, Chiang Mai Province. This research is a qualitative research and use of interview and questionnaire. The research showed that Buddhist principles can help the older persons to understand the real life and world in order to make the older persons able to rely on themselves before into the old age, and the use of Buddhist principles such as the actions of making merit, Secularism, Brahmavihara (Four divine abodes) as a guideline to develop the quality of life of older persons to be better the quality of life, and promote the development of health of the elderly to prepare themselves into the old age with happiness.