The Relationship of Self Care with Elderly Well Being - A Systematic Review

Muhammad Luthfi, Tintin Sukartini, Ferry Efendi

2018

Abstract

Inability to manage an everyday activity independently is a common reason for self-care, with self-care activities can support the health of the elderly to improve self-esteem, life satisfaction, and prevent depression. Elderly people living in the community tend to experience self-sufficiency, and need more help in daily life. The independence of a person in the overall health measure is about the way individuals perform physical and social tasks, as well as maintaining normal daily self-care, such as bathing, dressing, BAK / CHAPTER, moving from a chair, maintaining a continual and eating. The key words used were elderly, mental health and self care. Journal articles search were done electronically using multiple databases, namely: Science Direct and Scopus. Limitation year used was 6 years (2012 -2017). From the results obtained fifteen literatures selected of journal articles from 1979 journal articles found. Twelve studies raised in this study is inequality technique (heterogenesis), but self care can support the health of the elderly to improve self-esteem, life satisfaction, and prevent depression. To improve self-esteem, life satisfaction, and prevent depression, some researchers showed a positive correlation, as evidenced by the result of self care agency relationship between high self care agency and interrelated factors encourage self care, namely: (1) attitude and behavior of members family, (2) characteristics and attitude of the client, and (3) attitude / behavior of staff.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Luthfi M., Sukartini T. and Efendi F. (2018). The Relationship of Self Care with Elderly Well Being - A Systematic Review.In Proceedings of the 9th International Nursing Conference - INC, ISBN 978-989-758-336-0, pages 527-531. DOI: 10.5220/0008328005270531

in Bibtex Style

@conference{inc18,
author={Muhammad Luthfi and Tintin Sukartini and Ferry Efendi},
title={The Relationship of Self Care with Elderly Well Being - A Systematic Review},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Nursing Conference - INC,},
year={2018},
pages={527-531},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008328005270531},
isbn={978-989-758-336-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Nursing Conference - INC,
TI - The Relationship of Self Care with Elderly Well Being - A Systematic Review
SN - 978-989-758-336-0
AU - Luthfi M.
AU - Sukartini T.
AU - Efendi F.
PY - 2018
SP - 527
EP - 531
DO - 10.5220/0008328005270531