The Description of Quality of Life of the Elderly Using WHOQOLBREF

The Description of Quality of Life of the Elderly Using WHOQOLBREF

Nurnaningsih Herya Ulfah, Endah Retnani Wismaningsih

Aging process is mostly accompanied by decreasing both internal and external immune process response. This process is always accompanied by either physiological nor psychological changes. This changes affected the quality of life on the elderly. Malang is a city with an increasing number of the elderly along with the increasing of life expentancy. This research was aimed to describe the quality of life of the elderly in Malang City. This research was a descriptive study with a cross-sectional study design approach. The data collection was done by purposive sampling on 60 willing participants using WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire. Data were analysed by comparing the grade on WHOQOL-BREF domain with the WHO standarts. The result showed that 58.33% of the elderly in Malang City have medium quality of life. They often had difficulty with sleeping, moderately had negative feeling, had dependence of medication, had problems in personal and social relations, did not have leisure opportunities or participation, and felt that spirituality help through tough times. Based on this result, a proper health program can be designed in order to increase the quality of life of the elderly, thus it will increase life expectancy rate.

2018

Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium of Public Health - Volume 1: ISOPH, 133-140, 2017 , Surabaya, Indonesia
https://www.scitepress.org/Link.aspx?doi=10.5220/0007510301330140