Elderly’s Disaster Resilience in Natural Disaster: Literature Review
- DOI
- 10.2991/ahsr.k.201125.077How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Resilience, Disaster, Elderly
- Abstract
Elderly is one of the vulnerable groups when disaster occurs, because of life change that lead to setback. The number of elderly who live in disaster-prone areas increase the level of vulnerable. Klaten’s Central Bureau of Statistic stated that the number of elderly is increasing 0.37%- 0.5% every year. The trend of increasing elderly population urges the action to facilitate positive aging. This study aims to explored factors of elderly’s disaster resilience faces the natural disaster. This study used journals obtained through the PubMed and Google Schoolardatabaseswith keywords were “Resilience”, “Disaster”, “Elderly”, and “Qualitative”. The result of the study obtained seven journals that match to the inclusion criteria. The researcher assessed the seven journals with Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) and recommended five journals that eligible to do a review. It was found five factors that affected the resilience of elderly in dealing with disaster. These five factors was previous experience, cognitive flexibility, social support, optimism and spirituality. In conclusion, these five factors can improved capacity of the elderly to organize themselves from their problem, reduce the risk of disaster, and develop strength to deal with other traumatic incident in the future.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Istianna Nurhidayati AU - Ratna Agustiningrum AU - Desti Aprilia Ningtyas PY - 2020 DA - 2020/11/25 TI - Elderly’s Disaster Resilience in Natural Disaster: Literature Review BT - Proceedings of the International Conference of Health Development. Covid-19 and the Role of Healthcare Workers in the Industrial Era (ICHD 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 454 EP - 459 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.201125.077 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.201125.077 ID - Nurhidayati2020 ER -