The objectives were as follows: 1)  to study  on the role of elderly in community development in Saikhaw Sub-district, Huaisai District, Nakhon Si Thammarat province, 2) to compare on the role of elderly in community development in Saikhaw sub-district, Huasai District, Nakhon Si Thammarat province in terms of sexes, ages, occupations, degrees of education and monthly incomes as differently, and 3) to study on  suggestions for guideline in promotion on the role of elderly in community development in Saikhaw sub-district, Huasai District, Nakhon Si Thammarat province. This is the survey research. The population were composed of elderly who live in Saikhaw Sub-district for 3,331 persons. The Sample were about 341 persons. With krejcie and Morgan’s table measurement.systematic random sampling was used, the instrument for data collection was questionnaire, the reliability at 0.941. The statistics were applied as follows; frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation,   t-test, f-test and to test the difference mean in each pair by Scheffe’s method.

The findings were as follows:

1.        The role of the elderly in community development in SaiKhaw sub-district , HuaSai district, Nakhon Si Thammarat  province by overview was at moderate level                   (  =3.39) when considered in each domain found that the domain of religion,culture and tradition was the highest mean (  =3.57) and followed up the domain  of environment (  =3.41) and the domain of economic was the lowest mean (  =3.29) when classified in terms of sexes,ages,occapations,degrees of education and monthly income found that  by overview was at moderate level.

2.         The comparative result on the role of  elderly in community development in Saikhaw sub-district, HuaSai district, Nakhon Si Thammarat  province in terms of sexes, ages, occupations, degrees of education and monthly income found that  by overview there were not different which are not accordance with  hypothesis.

3.        The suggestion on the guideline to promotion the role of elderly in community development in Saikhaw Sub-district, Huasai District, Nakhon Si Thammarat province found that economic domain to support of carreer development of elders social domain there should set elder group in all villages and to aware of health , educational  domain , there should support for educational fund to the youth in community , environment domain, to promote on elders for  environment preservation and save for natural resources, religion culture and tradition domain : to promote of culture and tradition in local and to make consciousness people in  community for looking after the religion.

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