Innovative System for Urban Aging Health Development

Abstract

       This study on "The Innovation driving health policies and urban development for the Older Persons in the Bangkok community area" has the purpose of analyzing factors affecting the practice of health policies and urban development for older persons in the community of Bangkok by analyzing documents and in-depth field data collection by the staff from the BMA Social Development Office through the framework of decentralization and model of the policy implementation process. This study reveals that under the transfer of the mission to the agency (BMA Social Development Office), policy resources in terms of 1) budget 2) personnel 3) premises, and 4) materials and durable articles, are sufficient to support the implementation of the project to achieve the policy objectives. And the policy resources and policy objectives are relevant to communication between organizations since communication is a mechanism for ordering and receiving commands to recognize the operational guidelines by using the resources of the agency for operating following policy purposes. However, the authorization and duties of the BMA Social Development Office focusing on promoting and organizing social welfare, providing welfare in the form of shelters, and emergency homes, have demonstrated the potential to operate under the transfer of missions related to social welfare and assistance to older persons, making the operations to follow the policies received, while the integration of work within the agency and the attitude of the operators who are aware of the operational guidelines result in a mechanism that drives the practice or action to allocate housing welfare for older persons in the Bangkok areas to be achieved. However, despite problems and obstacles in terms of economic, social, and political conditions, the project can still be carried out which requires policy resources in terms of integrating agencies to support the implementation to be achieved according to the objectives of the policy.