IMPROVING ELDERLY COMMUNITY HEALTH POST THROUGH VILLAGE MEDIUM DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Abstraksi

Indonesia has been experiencing the Demographic Transition, reflected from the increasing trend of the aging population proportion. This study has three aims: explore the development of elderly health post and it’scorrelation with the well being; indentify the problems and prospects on participation of the elderly; develop solutions to improve the elderly health post. The study uses descriptive, and logistics methodologies and data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) and the data specially collected in 40 villages in D.I. Yogyakarta. The elderly health post availability increased from 50.8% to 71.1% between 2007 and 2014 in IFLS Community. About 32% of elderly health post reported low participation of pre elderly and elderly as the challenge. Many well-being indicators of people age 45 years and over have a positive correlation with health post visits namely health symptoms, general health status, need less help in daily activity, and BMI. The follow up study using mix method found five factors causing low levels of community participation in elderly posyandu: Elderly, Activity Program, Posyandu cadre, Elderly family and Related parties. The Village Medium-term Development Plan (RPJMDes) still focuses on infrastructure. Community development and empowerment such as elderly posyandu activities are less considered. The mutual commitment between BAPPEDA (Regional Planning Board) and village government is required to increase the participation of pre-elderly and elderly in elderly posyandu activities.