xxii | รายงานวิจัยฉบับสมบูรณ์ (Final Report) entitle the poor aged from 60 years old the rights to receive appropriate assistance from the government, and in Section 71 to specify the duty of the government to provide good quality of living for the people, and (3) the National Older Persons Act of 2003 to promote and support the older persons the rights as stated in Section 11. Accordingly under the Act, the relevant government agencies, state enterprises, local authorities will provide services for the older persons protected by their laws or regulations; the National Older Persons Committee was established to approve the services provided and proposed to the Cabinet the policies and master plans on the protection, promotion and support on the status, rolls, and activities related to older persons both in the public and private sectors, and family institution to take part in caring the older persons, etc.. The Section 15 of the National Older Persons Act were amended in 2017, and the 2% excise tax collected from alcohols and tobacco was added into the Older Persons Fund in order to increase the living allowances for the low income older persons. Thus, the movements by all agencies’ activities and establishment of laws, orders, announcements, regulations have been voluntarily conducted under the National Older Persons Act of 2003. 3) The reviews on the best practices in protection of the rights of older persons from discrimination on age from the 6 country case studies, i.e., Singapore, Japan, United States of America, United Kingdom, France, and Germany, found that in every country the protection of the rights of older persons in 3 dimensions are available and common: (1) on employment dimension, the extension of retirement age to 65 or 67 years old or the abolishment of retirement age, (2) the establishment of a social security system, which composes of social insurance (the benefits to the contributors of the insurance premiums from their payrolls tax as pensions for their retirement or for disability), health insurance (the benefits for medical cares to the contributors), and (3) social welfare (the services provided by the government for free to the poor or low income older persons by concrete criteria, e.g. poverty thresholds or minimum income thresholds and other qualifications such as family size). 4) From the survey on the older person samples on their opinions about the protection of the rights of older persons, the main findings are as followed: (1) Discrimination on age: Most of the older person respondents (more than 90% of them) have never experienced the discrimination against them, neither from people in the family, in the working place, in the community (e.g. neighbors, people in the community), and nor from those in the society (e.g. government officials/employees, people they contact