Journal of Nonformal Education
Vol 6, No 1 (2020): February 2020

Participants in the Elderly Empowerment Program Posyandu Ngudi Utomo: Study in Indonesia

Malik, Abdul (Unknown)
Widhanarto, Ghanis Putra (Unknown)
Vitriani, Adhe Mella (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
06 Feb 2020

Abstract

Creating healthy, independent, quality and productive older adults can be performed through routine health care efforts, namely the need to pay attention to risk factors to improve the health of the elderly. This study aims to explain the process of empowering the elderly, explain the supporting and inhibiting factors in the process of allowing the elderly, and explain the outcomes of the elderly empowerment program through the posyandu. This qualitative study uses the subject of Posyandu management, posyandu’s cadres for elderly and elderly families. Data analysis is shown in an interactive model by describing complete description data. The results showed that the process of empowering the elderly starts from preparation, assessment, planning alternative programs, formulating action plans, implementation and evaluation; while supporting factors are enthusiastic elderly who are high enough to know the health and support of the elderly family. Awareness is still low even there is a lack of infrastructure. The implication of this research for the field of community empowerment studies is to provide the benefits of preliminary studies for the development of betterquality empowerment models.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jne

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

This Journal collaborates with Ikatan Akademisi Pendidikan Nonformal & Informal and Himpunan Akademisi dan Program Studi Penmas Indonesia containing research articles in the field of Nonformal ...