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

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10.2991/iconeg-16.2017.85How to use a DOI?

Keywords

causal factors; participation; elderly care; care -for-the-elderly-at-home volunteers; Thailand

Abstract

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 .00.0 The main participation problems are an elderly's family fails to cooperate, there are not enough volunteers, and the budget is limited.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Piyakorn Whangmahaporn
PY  - 2016/12
DA  - 2016/12
TI  - Causal factors contributing to participation in the elderly care of care-for-the-elderly-at-home volunteers in Thailand
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Ethics in Governance (ICONEG 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 382
EP  - 386
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iconeg-16.2017.85
DO  - 10.2991/iconeg-16.2017.85
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