Causal factors contributing to participation in the elderly care of care-for-the-elderly-at-home volunteers in Thailand

摘要

The main purpose of this research are (1) to examine the relationship between the motivation and satisfaction affects the participation in the elderly care (2) to facilitate comparison of the participation in the elderly care and different factors of volunteers and (3) to investigate facing problems to participation in the elderly care. This research is mixed methods using questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The areas for surveying are in six regions of twelve provinces in Thailand with 400 care-for-the-elderly-at-home-volunteers. The influences of all variables in the casual model affected the volunteers' participation in elderly caring. The differences in age, occupation, family size, frequency of attending training after becoming a volunteer, duration of work duty, subordination, and duty section of the volunteers have a statistical significance in a level of .00.0The main participation problems are an elderly's family fails to cooperate, there are not enough volunteers, and the budget is limited.