PERBEDAAN KUALITAS HIDUP LANSIA YANG TINGGAL DI KOMUNITAS DENGAN DI PELAYANAN SOSIAL LANJUT USIA (Studi pada Lansia di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Kasiyan dan UPT PSLU Jember)

Abstract

Quality of life is a very broad concept that was affected by individual physical condition, psychological, level of independence, as well as the individual's relationship with the environment. This research aimed to determine differences in the quality of life of the elderly who living at community and Social Services, according to the physical, psychological, social, and environmental domain. This research was analytically studies using cross sectional design. The number of samples was 210 respondents, include 105 at community and 105 Social Services in Jember which is chosen by multistage random sampling. Mann Whitney test (alpha 0,05) was applied to analyze difference between quality of life of the elderly living at community and Social Services. There were not significant difference of quality of life among the elderly living at community and Social Services in Jember (p=1.000). Also according to domain quality of life, the were significant difference between physical, psychological, social, and environmental domain of the elderly living at community and Social Services in Jember. Based on this research, elderly who living at community needed for increase health promotion through increase visiting and addition of elderly integrated service post, also increasing the role of family support to visit elderly integrated service. While the elderly who living at Social Services needed for the provision of information and entertainment, as well as better modified activities, in order to protect people from boredom.