الملخص الإنجليزي
The study aimed to achieve planning indicators that may contribute
to develop social care services of the elderly people in the Sultanate of
Oman. The indicators had been determined through: services provided for
the elderly, the most prominent needs, and the most important
impediments that hinder the benefit of services provided to elderly.
The current study belongs to descriptive studies based on a social
survey on a sample consists of:241 elderly from Muscat Governorate, and
six experts in the field of elderly care. The data collection tools of the
study were designed by the researcher and it includes: a questionnaire for
elderly, and an interview with experts.
The study reached to some important indicators related to welfare
services of elderly as follows: there is a need for more expansion of
various services of the elderly in the Omani society, the development of
awareness of the elderly about available services, improving the
mechanisms of the announcement of services provided to the elderly,
developing follow-up and evaluation mechanisms of the elderly services
provided by welfare institutions, improving the economic services as well
as social services of elderly, and the readiness to expected impacts of
social change on the Omani family.
The study concluded some recommendations and mechanisms that
can improve the services provided to the elderly. The most important of
these recommendations are: elderly care within their family, and to
promote the support of government and private institutions for families
that take care of the aged people, and enabling families to provide ultimate
care for elderly
