A Development of Health Promotion Model for Social – Bound Elderly by Community Ban Angkun, Ta sawang Sub district, Muang district, Surin province.

Abstract

This research is an action research aimed to study the development of health promotion model
for well elders by Angkun village community, Ta Sawang Sub District, Muang District, Surin Province.
The sample group selected by purposive sampling were 33 well elders aged between 60-69 years
and other 30 additional participants. The elderly health promotion and development activity was an
action plan meeting guided by Appreciation Inf l uence Control (AIC). The data were analyzed by

descriptive statistics, frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and qualitative
content analysis. The results revealed that well elders health promotion model included 6 processes;
1) background knowledge and area-context analysis 2) implementing an action plan drafting
conference 3) complete action plan setting 4) action plan implementation 5) result monitoring
6) conclusive meeting on the project. The well elderly health promotion model of 4 activities including.
1) elderly health promotion activity, 2) knowledge transfer toward community, 3) elderly encouragement
activity 4) well elder jobs promotion activity. In evaluated elderly behavior related to health, and
measured satisfaction level. The result can be concluded that after the program implementation,
the elders obtained a good level of total behavior related to health (Mean = 2.63, SD = 0.299)
and very satisf i ed level of satisfaction (Mean = 2.54, SD = 0.208). In conclusion, the factor behind
this achievement was the totally participation of networks including 3 main networks namely elderly,
service providers, and supporters which collaboratively supported the competency to look after each other
according to the context and community lifestyle pragmatically and continuously.