Assessment Service Excellence in Elderly at the Gamping Health Center, Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta

Ruliyandari, Rochana and Nuraisyah, Fatma and Solikhah, Solikhah (2020) Assessment Service Excellence in Elderly at the Gamping Health Center, Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta. [Artikel Dosen]

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Abstract

Background
Health center was become a health reference place. As the first reference for public health, especially the elderly, health center must be able to provide services and facilities needed by the elderly according to their health and physical conditions. Improving health geriatric services were very important to help parents who are at risk of seeking medical care for their illness. This study aimed to comprehensively investigated the knowledge of Indonesian geriatric health services regarding geriatric risk factors, barriers, attitudes, and facilities of puskesmas in accordance with the elderly's polite program. Method
This observation study based on the elderly corrected the services and facilities of the health center. The sample was chosen in the criteria of parents around Sleman limestone by stratified random sampling. The ordinal logistic model was used to investigate the effects of grouping characteristics of participants in this study.
Results
services and facilities were only according to the standard set, there was an effort to raise the degree of the health center to be one standard number above according to the criteria. It was seen that there were at least elderly people who visited the health center. However, the elderly who attended the health center were significantly associated with better attitudes and healthy behaviors related to various elderly factors. The elderly with a higher education level had a 30% worse attitude. Family support for the elderly was needed.
Conclusion
Elderly patients had a minimum level of knowledge about health risk factors and a lack of family support will worsen the quality of life for the elderly. The results of this study may reflect a policy of awareness on improving services and facilities at the health center. Lack of program promotion and family support reduces the awareness of the elderly to check their health. This finding indicated that the services and conditions of Gamping 1 and 2 Health Center facilities need to be improved, as expected and needed by the elderly.

Item Type: Artikel Dosen
Subjects: R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisi / Prodi: Faculty of Public Health (Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat) > FKM Doc
Depositing User: Dr Solikhah Solikhah
Date Deposited: 19 Jun 2020 01:50
Last Modified: 19 Jun 2020 01:50
URI: http://eprints.uad.ac.id/id/eprint/19031

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