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This research aims to study health status of Thai aging and to investigate the
predictive ability of demographic characteristics, social support and health care for their
health by using a secondary data of Thai aging Survey in 2011 from the National
Statistics Office with 16,058 samples. The study found that health status of Thai aging
was moderate. The combination of demographic characteristics, social support and
health care could better predict their health status rather than only a single independent
variable. It was also found that the important variable was income. Thai aging who
have earned an average annual income of 50,000 baht were the group that can forecast
the health status the most (β = 0.172), followed by the health care (β = 0.156). This
study suggests that the government should maintains the welfare policy for Thai aging
especially subsistence allowance and improve channels to access the rights thoroughly,
as well as to promote health care behavior of the Thai aging with an emphasis on family
participation.