Active Ageing Level and Time Use of Elderly Persons in a Thai Suburban Community.

The study was done in one Thai suburban community and recruited from a Community Elderly School, so it may not represent older adults who are frail, have dementia, or are not enrolled in community programmes. Because it was a cross-sectional survey, it cannot show that leisure, social participation, or outdoor time caused higher active ageing. Time use relied on recall diaries, which may miss details or be biased by memory. Five participants were excluded for missing time-use data, so the analysed sample was smaller than the group who agreed to take part. The paper notes that comparing time use with other countries was difficult because activity categories were aggregated differently.

Do not read the higher active ageing group spending more time in leisure and social participation as proof that adding those activities will make older adults more active. This was a survey of a selected group of healthy older adults, and it did not test any intervention or show that time use caused the active ageing level.