Advice giving for elderlies living in urban family

Abstract

Family has been considered to be one of the basic social elements but it
has played an important role in our society. Family members, for example, uncle,
aunt, father and mother have their own important role and duty in educating ethics,
virtue, social value and passing on the cultural and social knowledge to their family
members in order to be the good population. It is considered to be the social power
that plays an important role in moving and developing societies even countries.
Nowadays, Thai family has been changed its form; from extended family to single
family. Extended family, that is considered to have grandfather and grandmother, is
decreasing while single family, which is considered to have parents and children, is
increasing. Since the change of family form, elderlies and family members have to
adapt themselves in order to learn to live according to their age. The problems that
mostly found in families nowadays are depression in elderlies, and the lack of
knowledge of taking care of elderly body, mind, and emotion. This mentioned
problem has many causes both mind, body, emotion and the change of society. So,
family is considered to be important for the elderlies. They always need taking care
and good understanding of their family. Therefore, family members should not leave
elderlies stay alone. Besides, family members should have knowledge and
understanding of taking care elderlies in their own family. So, giving advice to elderlies
who re living in unban family is considered to be important in educating urban
elderlies to live happily together with their family members. Moreover, it is considered
to be the elderly depression risk reduction in order to get rid of their stress in
misunderstanding in living with their family members, hat is the cause of family
conflict.