The Definition and Guideline of Elderly’s Happiness in Rinlapas Treatment Centre

Abstract

research is a qualitative research which has purposes to create a new guideline for helping elderly patients in the treatment center live there happily and make a research about happiness of elderly patients there for more understanding of patients’ mental health. The data were collected by In-depth interview and has el-derly patients who are up to 60 years old of age were key informants. The result indicated that the most satisfaction of patients is they want to live with their families at their own places but they are all well realized that they need a 24 hours care workers. All those elderly patients need is a visitation from their fami-lies and sometimes patients have a negative attitude toward their families. To apply positive psychology is a concept to improve and cure patients’ mental state effec-tively included positive thinking. Currently, psychology was applied with patient treatments both for physical and mental with expectation that patients could take good care of themselves.