HEALTH PROBLEM OF AGING IN IN BANG NANG LI DISTRICT

Wipakon Sonsnam; Munthanawadee Maytapattana

Wipakon Sonsnam College of Nursing and Health, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Munthanawadee Maytapattana College of Nursing and Health, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand

Keywords: Aging, Health Problem, Thailand

Abstract

The quantitative research aim to finding health problem of aging, 300 samples were aging in Bang Nang Li district, Samut Songkhram province by simple random sampling. Collected data by interview was developed and validated by the researcher and 3 review, reliability was 0.87 and assessment of physical performance by Activity of Daily Living (ADL). Data analysis to used descriptive statistics. Result, Samples (N=300) were women 168 persons (56.0%), male 132 persons (44.0%). Man and women age 60-65 years at the most, 142 persons were illness (47.3%). History of illness (N=124), top 3 of history illness were hypertension 68 persons (47.9%), Diabetes 55 persons (38.7%) and Heart were 9 persons (6.3%). The most of samples 224 persons (74.7%) have Activity of Daily Living (ADL) in group 1 and less ness group 3 were 24 persons (8.0%), only 98 persons have a problem of stability.