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Poltekita: Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat
Volume 4 | Nomor 2 | April – Juni 2023
e-ISSN: 2722-5798 & p-ISSN: 2722-5801
DOI: 10.33860/pjpm.v4i2.1652
Website: http://jurnal.poltekkespalu.ac.id/index.php/PJPM/
Pemeriksaan Kesehatan Lansia Dhuafa Binaan Pimpinan Wilayah Aisyiyah
Provinsi Kalimantan Timur
Tri Wahyuni
1,2
, Fitroh Asriyadi
1,3
, Andi Fatmawati Syamsu
4
1
Fakultas Keperawatan, Universitas Muhammadiyah Kalimantan Timur, Samarinda, Indonesia
2
Majelis Kesehatan Pimpinan Wilayah Aisyiyah Kalimantan Timur, Samarinda, Indonesia
3
Bidang Kesehatan, Sosial, dan Kebencanaan, PWM Kalimantan Timur, Samarinda, Indonesia
4
Jurusan Keperawatan, Poltekes Kemenkes Palu, Palu, Indonesia
Email korespondensi: tw879@umkt.ac.id
Article history:
Received: 02-11-2022
Accepted: 24-03-2023
Published: 30-04-2023
Kata kunci:
deteksi dini
kesehatan;
lansia dhuafa;
penyakit tidak
menular.
keywords:
detect health problems;
poor elderly;
non-communicable
disease.
ABSTRAK
Lansia dhuafa merupakan seseorang dengan usia 60 tahun ke atas, yang
mengalami masalah sosial ekonomi sehingga tidak melakukan
pemeriksaan kesehatan mereka karena adanya keterbatasan. Abdimas
ini bertujuan untuk melakukan deteksi dini masalah Kesehatan pada
lansia dhuafa yang mengalami kesulitan untuk mengakses fasilitas
Kesehatan karena keterbatasan mereka. Deteksi dini Kesehatan ini
dilakukan secara gratis dengan tujuan untuk membantu lansia dhuafa
yang tidak bisa melakukan pemeriksaan kesehatan karena berbagai
kendala, di Panti Asuhan Siti Khodijah Jalan Merdeka Samarinda, pada
tanggal 24 September 2022. Peserta deteksi masalah Kesehatan ini terdiri
dari 51 lansia, dengan pemeriksaan tekanan darah, berat badan, tinggi
badan, gula darah sewaktu, asam urat, dan kolesterol. Dari pemeriksaan
ini, jumlah peserta terbanyak adalah lansia sebanyak 90.2%, lansia yang
terdeteksi mengalami tekanan darah tinggi sebanyak 60.8%, mengalami
diabetes mellitus sebanyak 21.6%, mengalami kadar kolesterol tinggi
berdasarkan jenis kelamin sebanyak 35.3%, dan yang mengalami
hiperkolesterolemia sebanyak 43.1%, dan yang mengalami obesitas
sebanyak 45.1%.
ABSTRACT
The poor elderly are people aged 60 years and over, who experience
socio-economic problems so they do not carry out their health checks due
to limitations. This community service aims to detect health problems early
in elderly poor people who have difficulty accessing health facilities due to
their limitations. This early detection of health is carried out free of charge
with the aim of helping poor elderly people who cannot carry out health
checks due to various obstacles, held at the Siti Khadijah Orphanage,
Jalan Merdeka Samarinda, on September 24, 2022. Participants in the
detection of health problems consisted of 51 elderly people, checking their
blood pressure, weight, height, current blood sugar, uric acid, and
cholesterol. From this examination, the highest number of participants
were the elderly as much as 90.2%, the elderly who were detected to have
high blood pressure as much as 60.8%, had diabetes mellitus as much as
21.6%, had high cholesterol levels based on sex as much as 35.3%, and
who experienced hypercholesterolemia as much as 43.1%, and 45.1%
who are obese.
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