ABSTRACT

HARDIYANTI RUSLAN: The relation between the activeness of cadre and elderly people’s quality of
life in batua village, manggala sub district, Makassar.
Counselor: Hj. Andi Annas, SKM, M.Si dan Ns.I Kade Wijaya, S.Kep

An Aftempt to increase the level of elderly people’s health is maintaining their health condition at
elderly health services (posyandu lansia). The activeness of health service cadres becomes the main
stakeholder for the smoothness of health service activities and it affects to the elderly people’s
participation for checking their health at health services in increasing their health status so that it can
improve the elderly people’s quality of life.

The objective of the research is to find out the relation between the activeness of cadre and the
quality of elderly people’s life in batua village, manggala subdistrict, Makassar.

This is an analytical research using the design of cross sectional study. There are 41 respondents
for the sample. The sampling technique uses purposive sampling and the instrument used in this research
is questionnaire.

From the result of data analysis of chi-square with the significance level a 5% (0,05) it shows that
there is a relation between the activeness of cadre and elderly people’s quality of life with p-value = 0,001
(< 0,05).

In conclusion there is a relation between the activeness of cadre and elderly people’s quality of
life in batua village Manggala subdistrict, Makassar. The writes suggests to cadre for visiting elderly
people when they don’t visit the health service (posyandu) and motivating them to check their health
regularly.

Keywords : The activeness of cadre, quality of life, elderly people

Reference : 25 (2011-2017)