Needs Assessment of the development for Wat Mae ka Thok Wak Elderly School

Abstract

              This research was aimed 1) to examine service usage behavior 2) to need assessment of the development for Wat Thonk Wak elderly school 3) to explore guidelines to develop the service of the Wat Mae ka Thok wak school. The study population was elderly people in Mae Ka Sub-district 150 people. The sample was 75 people by simple random sampling. The key informant was the abbot, the Volunteer Teacher and 12 elderly students. The instruments were used questionnaire 19 items, total reliability were 0.79and semi-structured interview. The data analysis was used frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation. and the Essential Needs Priority Index (PNI_M), and the qualitative data analysis used content analysis.

              The results of the research found that 1. The behavior of the elderly mostly participated in
the activities of Wat Thok Wak, which consisted of 2 activities. 1) Activities on important buddhist days
and 2) activities at Wat Thok Wak school for the elderly. 2. The need assessment for the development of development school has an overall PNI_M value of 0.16. 3. Guidelines for the development of the elderly have 4 elements of: 1) Learning Activities 2) Buildings, premises and environments 3) Media, materials,
and equipment and 4) Volunteer teachers. The activities that have highest interest was Buddhism and learning activities, and the most demanding activities were learning activities.