Childhood activities adults utilizing for the Intervention Reminiscence-Based Screening

Abstract

Ageing people is a vulnerable population, so it is a global public health concern among nations. Indonesia has tendency to be an ageing structure population on the future. At one public home care in Jakarta, there was an extremely data about decreasing number of healthy older adults in three consecutive years since 2016. Behind in this problem, the reminiscence screening about childhood activities has done in one public home care. It was utilizing by the basic principle of Intervention Reminiscence-Based Screening.The qualitative study with a mix-method design was used in this study via verbal, then data transformed for four stages namely decontextualization, recontextualization, categorization, and compilation. Data have written text and transform for content analysed by surface structure to identify meaning units follow by coding, categorize, and themes. Participants 22 with inclusion criteria such as healthy, over 60-year-old, pass on sensory and cognitive screening. There were found three themes of childhood activities, namely: physical activity, mental activation, and interactive communication relationship. Although the participants were very excited during survey, there was found one participant who has none idea. Therefore, it is a good idea to develop a media for optimizing cognitive function of elderly in Indonesia.