FAKTOR YANG BERHUBUNGAN DENGAN BEBAN KELUARGA DALAM MERAWAT AKTIFITAS SEHARI-HARI PADA LANSIA
ABSTRACT: Treatment of elderly
needs to be considered properly, the elderly who have difficulty in performing
daily activities at home, such as toileting, eating, dressing, bathing and
transferring. Issues relating to the elderly lead to dependence on others.
Elderly dependency ratio can be classified in decreasing independence. Elderly
needs family to perform their activities of daily living independently. Caring
for the Elderly may have an impact on family in the form of expenses incurred
for the elderly require continuous assistance. This research aim was to
identify several factors related to the family burden of caring for the elderly
in the treatment daily activities. The study design used cross sectional
method. The sampling method used cluster sampling technique. Respondents that
family members caring for the elderly totaling 98 respondents. The study was
conducted in July 2015. Bivariate test
used chi-square test. Based on bivariate analysis between knowledge and family
expenses 0.002. Socioeconomic relations that includes education, employment,
and income with the burden of the family, education was obtained p-value 0.039,
0.017 jobs, and income 0.0. The relationship between long care for the elderly
load was obtained p-value 0.024. There were a significant relationship between
the knowledge of the family, economic sosial of the family and long of care for
the elderly with the burden of caring for elderly relatives. Families should
aim to increase knowledge about the care activities of daily living in the
elderly with a lot of reading and find out about the care activities of daily
living in the elderly through mass media. Cadres should increase the knowledge
about the knowledge of the care activities of daily living by means of training
and counseling held in the clinic so in practice cadres received extensive
insight maintenance activities of daily living in the elderly and families
teach the elderly.
KEYWORDS: burden family; daily
activities; elderly
Penulis: Rizky Erwanto
Kode Jurnal: jpkebidanandd160441
