PENGARUH SENAM OTAK DENGAN DEMENSIA PADA MANULA DI RUMAH BAHAGIA KAWAL KECAMATAN GUNUNG KIJANG KABUPATEN BINTAN PROVINSI KEPRI

Abstract

People with dementia are around 16% for people over 65 years and 32-35% for people over 85 years. Based on data obtained by researchers at the happy guardhouse of elderly who have dementia totaling 30 people. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of brain exercise with dementia in the elderly. The design in this study uses a quasi-experimental design (quasi-experimental design) with a time-series design. The population in this study were all the elderly who lived in a happy kawal home, the sample in this study was elderly dementia who lived in a happy kawal home with a sampling technique using purposive sampling of 41 respondents. The place of research in the house of the happy guard, when the study was conducted on June 11, 2015. Collecting data in this study before and after given brain exercises using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) questionnaire The analysis test in this study was to use one sample T-Test with the results obtained p-value = 0,000 <0.05 so that Ho is rejected, meaning there is an influence of brain exercise with dementia. The conclusion of this study is that there is a significant influence between the provision of brain gymnastics with dementia in the elderly at happy kawal home, it is hoped that it can increase efforts in doing brain gymnastics to reduce the occurrence of dementia at happy kawal home.