| dc.description.abstract | The increasing population of elderly has recently become a focus of interest in
developing countries because of increasing life expectancy. This research aims to
compare elderly people’s quality of life based on their sosio demographic, sosio
economic characteristic, health status and social participation. A cross-sectional
study was conducted among 211 elderly aged 60 and over, who lived in Sumbersari
sub-district Jember. Data were collected by using WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire
from May to June, 2012. Statistics used for data analysis were Chi Square, Mann
Whitney and Kruskal Wallis analysis. The study found 45.5% elderly had a good level
of quality of life, followed by moderate (25.6%), poor (22.3%,) very good (4.7%) and
very poor (1.9%). Data analysis showed a significant different of quality of life in
ethnic variance, elderly’s integrated service participation and chronic disease
variable. Also, according to quality of life domains, differences found almost in every
variable. This result means that quality of life of elderly in Sumbersari Sub-district
Jember was different according to their ethnic variance, elderly’s integrated service
participation and chronic disease variable. Based on this research, health promotion
throuh elderly integrated service and developing multi sector approach between
department of health and departement of education need to be improved. | en_US |
