ความต้องการบริการด้านการดูแลระยะยาวแบบเป็นทางการสำหรับผู้สูงอายุในประเทศไทย / ณัฐพงษ์ พบสมัย = Need for formal long-term care for the elderly in Thailand / Natthapong Pobsamai
To study the need of formal long-term care in Thailand and to analyze the determinants of need for formal long-term care for the elderly, namely Day Care Center, Home Care Service and Chronic Residential Home, in Thailand. Data used for this analysis is micro data from the 2002 Survey of Elderly in Thailand collected by National Statistic Office. The original sample size is 43,447 elderly and omits the elderly who did not response the questionnaire by him/herself. So the sample size of this research is 32,020. The finding of this study is, in general, personal factors, living factors and health factors affect positively the need for formal long-term care for the elderly. Female elderly, the elderly who lives alone compared with the elderly who lives with family, worse health status compared with good health status, and the elderly who has a problem in activities of daily living compared with the elderly who has not got, tends to need formal long-term care services more than others. Furthermore, when we classified formal long-term care by types of services, Day Care Center, Home Care Services, and Chronic Residential Home, we found that the elderly who lives alone is likely to require for the Day Care Center and Home Care Service. Additionally, when we consider the economic status of the elderly, we found that the high-income elderly and elderly who well-prepare in financial is more likely to prefer elderly care in term of both overall and separate formal long-term care.
