The following questions were used as the initial prompts for the semi-structured interviews: What do you think active ageing means? What characterizes active ageing in Thai society? What do you think healthy older persons should achieve? What activities older persons contribute to family, friends, neighbors and society? How do you retain independence and contribute to others? How do you guarantee yourselves security in later life? Additional probing questions were used to explore answers and obtain more specific or in-depth information, such as: Would you explain more about this? or What is the meaning of that notion?