Taking Care of the Older Persons with Local Wisdom

Abstract

Thai society at the present time has entered into aging society fully owingto the rate of birth of reduced childhood population and the increasing rate of
more and more old age. Attention towards taking care of health including themethods used as being a principle for behaving in living. So it is necessary thing forthe older persons to give precedence and adjust themselves to have suitabilitywith the present situation that has changed increasingly. Local wisdom, it is oneway in the practice that has occurred from accumulating experience for a long timeuntil being body of knowledge corresponding cultural, environmental and localwisdom context that the older persons live and can bring it as the practice in takingcare of health to live evenly, having quality and suitability by reducing risk factorson the food, promoting activities on the health by increasing the social role to havesuitability with their ages to have the change of body of knowledge of local wisdom together in activity management. These things can make the older persons live infamily and community happily, being worthy of, having prestige and the spiritualstability in final part of life.