Proceedings of the 1st Lawang Sewu International Symposium 2022 on Health Sciences (LSISHS 2022)

Caregivers’ Experiences: Psychosocial Problem of the Elderly in Nursing Home-A Qualitative Study

Authors
Tri Nurhidayati1, 2, *, Sheila Destika Rachmawati1, Ah Yusuf2, Eni Hidayati1, Mohammad Fatkul Mubin1
1Department of Nursing, Faculty Nursing and Health Sciences, Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia
2Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: tnh@unimus.ac.id
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Tri Nurhidayati
Available Online 19 April 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-132-6_38How to use a DOI?
Keywords
caregivers’ experience; psychosocial problem; elderly
Abstract

Background: Psychosocial problems are one of the mental health disorders where every change in a person's life that is psychological or social has an influence and can have a large enough potential to become a factor in mental disorders or vice versa.

Aim: To describe caregivers’ experience with the psychosocial problem in older adults at Panti Wening Wardoyo Ungaran.

Methods: Descriptive quantitative is used as the research design with a phenomenology approach describing the caregivers' experiences of the psychosocial problem at Panti Wening Wardoyo Ungaran.

Results: The results of this study are for understanding caregivers caring for the elderly with psychosocial problems, there are 7 themes, namely training experience, depression, family problems, loss, trauma, withdrawal and anger, for how to care for caregivers there are 3 themes, namely communication, social activities and referrals to health services. Furthermore, the obstacles experienced by caregivers have 1 theme, namely lack of understanding, and expectations of caregivers, there is 1 theme, namely being social, so for this study there are 12 themes in total.

Conclusion: The Nursing Home is expected to facilitate caregivers to get training about mental health in elderly. Can be concluded that the accuracy of measuring body weight depends on gender.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st Lawang Sewu International Symposium 2022 on Health Sciences (LSISHS 2022)
Series
Advances in Health Sciences Research
Publication Date
19 April 2023
ISBN
978-94-6463-132-6
ISSN
2468-5739
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-132-6_38How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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