Peningkatan Pengetahuan Lansia tentang Penyakit Degeneratif di Wilayah Kampung Tengah Kramat Jati

Abstract

The elderly are residents who have a high risk for various degenerative diseases, including stroke, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus. Lack of information and knowledge of the elderly regarding degenerative diseases, healthy lifestyles, and patterns of early prevention, are the main causes of the high incidence of complications of disease in the elderly. The inaccessibility of the elderly to access health services is also a barrier factor for the elderly and families to obtain information related to the disease. The purpose of this activity in general is to improve the degree of public health through increasing the knowledge of the elderly about degenerative diseases in the Kampung Tengah region, and specifically (1) providing knowledge to the elderly about stroke, (2) providing knowledge to the elderly about hypertension, (3) providing knowledge to the elderly about diabetes mellitus, and (4) providing knowledge to the elderly about how to prevent and manage stroke, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus. The method of this activities are lecturing, discussions, practicing and educational approaches. From the results of counseling activities, it can be concluded that the knowledge of the elderly about stroke, hypertension and diabetes mellitus in the Kampung Tengah region is still very minimal, and increasing knowledge about these degenerative diseases is very much needed so that the elderly can better maintain their health.