The Empowering Resilience among the Elderly in Eastern Economic Corridor According to Buddhist Principles
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This research aimed to study the guidelines for empowering resilience of elderly people according to Buddhist Principles which was the research and development which built guidelines from lesson-learned from the elderly who were elderly resilience, families and community leaders and examine the possibilities of guidelines using the Delphi technique. The sample were divided into two groups; group one, elderly people who had been found to be resilient, after filling out a social dimension survey, and families of elderly people who were resilient; data was collected via in-depth interviews and focus group discussions of community leaders, group two consisted of experts including gerontology experts, elderly policy makers and elderly people amount 19 persons; data was collected using a questionnaire via the Delphi technique. Data were analyzed using content analysis, median and interquartile range. The research results were found that the guidelines for empowering resilience of elderly people according to Buddhist Principles consist of 3 main category and 21 main guidelines 51 sub-guidelines as follows; category 1: guidelines for elderly included 6 dimensions, 15 main guidelines, 33 sub-guidelines, category 2: guidelines for families included 3 main guidelines, 9 sub-guidelines and category 3: guidelines for community leaders included 3 main guidelines, 9 sub-guidelines. Consequently, the elderly and those involved should be guided by this research to empower elderly resilience by focusing on emotional regulation and self-esteem competence, social competence, spiritual practice security, positive coping competence, self-efficacy and sense of purpose, and physical health caring which can reduce dependency problems, illness and expenses which will be beneficial to society and nation.
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