The Development of the Temples to be the Center to promoting quality of Elderly People in Chiang Mai Province
Keywords:
Temple Development, Quality of Life Promotion, ElderlyAbstract
This research aims to study roles and processes to promote the quality of aging people’s life of the temples in Chiang Mai province, to find out the factors from the temples and communities concerning in promotion of quality of life of aging people, as well as to investigate the way of development the temple to be the center of promotion the quality of life of senior people. This research is considered “applied research” in which quantitative and qualitative methodology is used. The former was done by questionnaires with 400 aging people who were more than 60 years old up, the latter with Buddhist monks from 6 temples in Chiang Mai province.
The study stated that roles and processes to promote the quality of aging people’s life in Chiang Mai province were at a high level (= 2.34). When we classified into different aspects, the study found that roles and processes to promoting quality of aging people’s life in terms of health were at the high level (= 2.47), totally at medium by family (= 2.22), health service at the medium level (=2.25), the least level (=2.00) is of health behavior.
Factors of temples and communities concerning promoting the quality of aging people’s life in Chiang Mai province were at a high level (= 2.52). In detail, we found that mental quality was at the highest level (=2.74) and cultural-social aspect totally at the medium (=2.52). The way of the development the temple to be the center of promotion the quality of life of senior people in Chiang Mai province were totally at the medium level (=2.01), in details we found that information about the development of quality of aging people’s life was totally at the medium level (= 3.70) and the medium level (=2.01) belongs to information of practice on longevity.
The study suggests that the temples have to develop activities for aging people by using the Buddhist principles to support mental health and quality of life by cooperation with state agencies, local authorities, private sector organizations, and Buddhist monks to make policies and planning to develop activity integrated with Buddha’s teaching for the aging people in the community
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