Elder Leisure：Painting Theme Leisure Lifestyle Motivation and Benefit

[[abstract]]Since 1993, Taiwan entered an aging society, the elderly population ratio as the post-war baby boomers, medical advances, the impact of factors such as fertility decline and rising. In particular, the "old" life is old age; often affected by physical aging, the elderly's social productivity and personal mobility decreased slowly and suffer the inconvenience suffered. The "leisure" product known as the old new life, through social forces and individual choice to help the elderly to fill idle time, to avoid loss of life or the focus of touch with society. Introduction to painting is a simple leisure activities, there is no established pattern, not too many limitations, as long as the virtue of daily observation and personal feelings can describe them. Painting is also independent of the art therapy, known as the painting treatment; on children, adolescents, adults, and even patients have good in vivo. Therefore, this research want to artists painting for elderly subjects to understand the relationship between leisure lifestyle; and explore the motivation and benefit associated with the hope that this research can help older people with mobility to enjoy painting for much more leisure. This according to Taichung County, Changhua County in central regions of the evergreen school, university for the elderly, community organizations, charities and cultural centers to obtain 302 valid sample, SPSS and AMOS by two statistical software packages and using descriptive analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, chi-square test and canonical correlation analysis of the data analysis of five samples and information. The results showed that: older artists painting subject by drawing the leisure lifestyle vary; painting and drawing benefits motive exists between the three groups of typical positive correlation. "Multi leisure" and "information-based society," the older artists to "other specified" and "creative aesthetics" as the main theme of painting, but the "Multi leisure" has preferences of older artists, "observation of life" "information-based society," the older artists are prefer to "emotional memory" of the subject. Old painting's "leisure" painting motivation to bring "social" and "psychological" on the effectiveness of "nostalgia" motivation and promote the "psychological" on the effectiveness of; the "learning" and "aesthetics" motive to give the two older artists, "education" on the benefits