1. Introduction
Currently, our society is slightly moving toward to an aging society in which by 21st century, elderly would be considered as a majority population of many countries. The growth of numbers of elderly is swiftly going higher than the whole numbers of the world population in every region around the world. The lowered of birth rate, the improvement of health care, better living condition also help lengthen people lives and simultaneously increasing numbers of elderly. In Thailand, numbers of elderly and the ratio have been increasing continuously. In 2002, there
were 9.4 % of elderly while in 2007, numbers of elderly had increased to 10.7 % with was the first to mark that Thailand is now entering the aging society since 2005. At the present, there are 7.4 million elderly living in Thailand and this number is expected to rise to 17.7 million in 2030.
The upcoming problem now is what helps elderly not becoming their young ones’ and social burdens and what we can do to transform these aging burdens to the vital force that can drive our society forward.