Socio-environmental and health dimensions affecting work requirements and living conditions of older persons in thailand

The increasing number of older persons in Thailand need not be seen as a burden; indeed most can continue to provide for their extended family and support the home community in various ways. This study focused only on person's age 60 to 79 years, which comprise the ‘early’ and ‘middle’ phases of older age. Data were extracted from the 2014 Thai Census of Older Persons which enumerated a total of 8,650,882 elderly throughout Thailand. This analysis examined the relationship between those groups of factors on work and living status of older persons This study found that the following variables were significant at the 0.05 level: sex, age, residence of children outside the family but living nearby, work during the past week, mean annual income, adequacy of income, satisfaction with one's financial status, home owner in residence, satisfaction with the government's elderly welfare subsidy, type of dwelling, characteristics of the home, bannisters on stairways, hand-grips in the bedroom, hand-grips in the bathroom, source of drinking water, ability to lift a weight of five kilograms, ability to walk 200–300 meters, ability to climb two to three stairs, and health status in the past week.