A crosssectional study was conducted to
collect data by interview questionnaire during 1731
October, 2005. The population were the elderly who
had their residence in Buriram province. The samples were the elderly who were able to communicate, who held a health gold card, who had no serious health problems and who were willing to participate in this study by signed consent form. The sample size was calculated. Total sample size was 341 cases. The multistage sampling technique was used to select the elderly from each of the target 6 villages obtained from the 3 districts of the northern, central and southern part of the province