ABSTRACT
THE INFLUENCE OF ELDERLY GYMNASTICS TOWARD CHANGES OF DEPRESSION DEGREE IN ELDERLY AT TRESNA WERDHA MINAULA SOCIAL HOUSE KENDARI


By:
Andi Suci Juwita Lestariani Alam
K1A1 14 053
The population of elderly people in Indonesia is increasing in line with the increase of life expectancy. As people get older, aging is unavoidable and physical change occur, in addition the elderly begin to lose their jobs, a purpose in life, isolation from the environment and loneliness. This can lead a mental disorder. The most common mental disorder experienced by the elderly is depression. Nonpharmacological therapy should be given to prevent depression for example elderly gymnastic. Elderly gymnastic is the series of movements designed specifically for the elderly. The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of elderly gymnastics toward changes in depression degree in the elderly at TresnaWerdhaMinaula Social House Kendari.

This research type is include in quasi-experimental research with Non-randomized Pretest-posttest design. The population in this study is all elderly at TresnaWerdhaMinaulaKendari Social House which amounts to 95 people. The sample of this study were 28 people and determined by total sampling. The instrument used in this study is Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). data were analyzed using paired T test (T-test). Where the data normality was tested by using kolmogorovsmirnov test showing data distributed normally. If the data is not normally distributed then the analysis used is non parametric statistical test wilcoxon. Data is significant if p value