The Need for Medical Service of the Elderly and Pre-elderly in Songkhla Province

Abstract

This research work aims to improve marketing and prepare service to meet the needs, as well as 1) examine the need for medical service of the elderly and pre-elderly, and 2) compare the need for medical service of the elderly and pre-elderly. This work is a quantitative study using survey as the tool to collect information from the people in Songkhla Province of which 410 persons were included in the sample group. T-test was used for data analysis. The study found that the need for medical services of the pre-elderly overall was higher than the elderly (rating was high). Comparison between the pre-elderly and the elderly revealed that the difference was the mental and social services with statistical significance of 0.05. the pre-elderly was found to have more medical service needs than the elderly.