Factors Affecting Quality of Life of the Elderly in Urban Community of Arunyik Municipality, Phitsanulok Province

Abstract

          The study of aims to 1) study level of elderly’s quality of life in the urbanized community, 2) study factors affecting the elderly’s quality of life. The samples were 400 elderlies with over 60 years of age divided according to population proportion in each community. It is a quantitative research.
          The data were collected by employing and analyzed by using percentage, mean and standard deviation.
          The findings were found that
          1) The level of elderly’s quality of life overall was at high level ranking from the highest mean to the lowest mean as follows: social relations, environment, mental and physical conditions respectively. 
          2) Factors affected the elderly’s quality of life were that activity participation, having the position or status in the community, environmental conditions at community and obtaining information which could be described the variation  of the elderly’s quality of life overall were at 82.2 %.  The highest factor resulted to the prediction of the elderly’s quality of life is having the position or status in the community, followed by obtaining information, environmental conditions at community and activity participation.  Therefore, if there are the 4 factor-development aforementioned, the elderly’s quality of life will be higher.