Pengaruh Pendidikan Keshatan kepada Lansia terhadap Tingkat Kunjungan Posyandu Lansia

Abstract

Health education is the educational activities carried out by way of conveying a message, put faith, so that people are not only aware of, know and understand, but also willing and able to perform a suggestion related to health, for the elderly, the risk of degrading is closely related with the aging process among other circulatory disorders such as hypertension, vascular disorders, joint disorders such as osteoporosis. Nowadays, the elderly enthusiasm in Posyandu Lansia has not been going well. It was proven that there were 63 elderly in Tulungrejo did not join Posyandu. Method: The research Design was pre-experimental using one group pretest-posttest approach. The subjects of this study was 75 respondents using the total sampling technique. The sample was the elderly of Bendogerit village. Result : With a significance level of <0.0001 showed that there was an effect in before and after treatment by providing health education for the elderly to visit Posyandu Lansia. Discussion : The need for socialization is much needed in the elderly, it can also be a motivation for them to visit Posyandu Lansia.