Pengaruh Pendidikan Kesehatan Terhadap Perilaku Pencegahan Demensia Pada Lansia

Abstract

Dementia is a sindrom which is characterization with loss of intelectual capacity, involving is not onlycognitive but also leaguange, visospasial ability,personality memory too. Factors that can affect theonset of dementia such as knowledge, persepsion,motivation, information and environment. From eachfactors can be caused of loss in prevention behavior onelderly. To know the influence of health education inprevention of dementia. The Research design of this study is praexsperiments approach with pre post test. The amountof population in this reaseach is 21 elderly in posyanduelderly. From 21 elderly people was taken 16 sampleand the Technique of collectin data was used simplerandom sampling. The result of this research showed that there isincrease in dementia prevention behavior before andafter health education was given. Results of statisticaltests Pairs t-test with a p-value of 0.05 means 0.000