Guidelines of Funeral Welfare Management for the Elders in the Muslim Way, Kayohmati Community, Bajo District, NARATHIWAT Province

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Jirachaya Jeawkok et al.

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This study aims to analyse the funeral welfare for the Muslim elders and to suggest guidelines regarding the funeral welfare management for the Muslim elders. The guidelines might help stakeholders to investigate and manage the welfare more effective and stable through participatory process.  Further, this would help the group to get more members which would lead to a quality and sustainable funeral welfare for Muslim elders in the Kayohmati community.The design of this study is mixed method. First, the researchers employed phenomenological research to explore the community’s life experience for the primary data. The researchers investigated the meaningful aspects and understandings through conversations, in-depth interviews, focus-group interviews, and questionnaires. The researchers used content synthesis to form guidelines of the funeral welfare management, which was classifying and categorizing topics and arranging concepts. The qualitative data was carefully reconfirmed, and the quantitative data was analysed into frequency, average, and percentage. Moreover, to conduct the research professionally the researchers followed research ethics firmly and this research had been approved for research ethics code of conduct.


The findings regarding needs of the funeral welfare were as follows: the elder members who are low-income need career workshops to support their finance. Furthermore, it was found that community leader plays a key role in facilitating and encouraging collaboration among the community, government, and academic sectors to form public policy. Therefore, the government sector should collaborate with the community which the people could express their performance and self-autonomy and the findings confirmed that we can develop it to public policy and guidelines for the welfare founders, committees, and members to improve the welfare’s management system. Also, there could be guidelines to increase medical welfare and income for the elders.  The novelty or originality of this studyproposed the funeral welfare management model is getting from the management of Muslim welfare that is sustainable and fit with the local context, religion, knowledge, self-value, and belief in a particular area

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