Management of the Residence Prototype for the Happiness of Elderly People

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to study the components of management of the residence of the elderly people, 2) to study the components of the happiness of the elderly people, 3) to analyze the confirmatory factors of management of the residence for the happiness of elderly people, and 4) to propose the model of management of the residence prototype for the happiness of elderly people. The researcher applied the Mixed Methodology Research; beginning with the quantitative research method and used the qualitative research method to confirm the quantitative data. The research results show that the components of management of the residence prototype of the elderly people in total were at the highest level. In particular, Environment had the highest mean score, followed by Technology, and Pattern and Style respectively. The hypotheses analysis results show that the model of management of the residence is relevant to the empirical data. Regarding the analysis of prediction power of each predictive variable affecting the happiness of elderly people; it was found that 6 factors of Pattern and Style, 6 factors of Environment, and7 factors of Technology had prediction power at 80.90%. It can create the prediction equation in the form of standard score, as follows;

Y=2.029 + .174PA₄ + .238 PA₈ + .051 PA₉ + .371 PA₁₀ + .245 EN₁ + .348 EN₂+ .140 EN₇+ .092 EN₁₀
+.290 TE₁ + .151 TE₄ + .320 TE₅ + .356 TE₇ + .121 TE₈ + .570 TE₁₀