<![CDATA[ABSTRACT Background: Elderly who are far from their family are in nursing homes or nursing homes, often feel they are no longer needed, left out or thrown away from the family and added to problems with illnesses that don't go away, their ability to cope with mechanisms has greatly decreased, so the elderly will easily experience psychological well-being problems. There are several ways to improve the psychological well-being of the elderly, one of which is to provide social support with family gathering activities. Purpose: This study aims to analyze whether there is an effect of family gathering on the psychological well-being of the elderly at the Al-Islah Elderly Pondok Malang. Methods: The design of the pre-experimental study was one group pre-post test design with a population of 23 elderly people, a total sampling approach with treatment of elderly families before meeting the elderly. The independent variable family gathering, the intervening variable is family social support, and the dependent variable is the psychological well-being of the elderly. The Scale of Psychological well-being (SPWB) questionnaire instrument, the data collection time was carried out before and after the family gathering. Ordinal data scale, One-Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test data normality test, effect test namely Paired T-Test on pretest and post test data with the help of the SPSS 21 application. Result: The results show that family gatherings have an influence on the psychological well-being of the elderly at Pondok Al-Islah with a significance value of 0.034 which is less than 0.05. Family gatherings can improve the quality of mental health, increase self-confidence, prayer, enthusiasm or encouragement, advice and acceptance, so that it meets the expectations of the elderly. Conclusion: Suggestions for the family gathering program can be used as a routine activity and become a commitment between the family and the management from the start to entrust the elderly. Keyword: Family Gathering, Psychological Well-Being, Elderly]]>
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