Hubungan Perilaku Lansia dan Dukungan Keluarga terhadap Pemanfaatan Posyandu Lansia di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Darussalam Tahun 2012

One of the successes of development in the health sector is growing Life expectancy (UHH) which is a leading indicator of the health of public health. To achieve health care efforts at the community level that The Integrated Service for old-agers. This research is an analytic survey with cross sectional study design, which is to portray how the relationship behavior of elderly and family support for the the service for old-agers utilization. The population of this study were all elderly aged ≥60 years with as many as 1420 people in the work area Darussalam health center with a simple random sampling as many as 96 person. The data used are primary through interviews and secondary data, the data were analyzed using chi-square test. The results showed that there was relation between knowledge with the use of the service for old-agers ((p)=0.001), there was relation between attitude with the use of the service for old-agers ((p)=0.001), there was relation a family support is informational support the family ((p)=0.001), support a family assessment ((p)=0.001), family instrumental support ((p)=0.003) and emotional support to the family ((p)=0.001) with the use of the service for old-agers. For agencies, health center and village are advised to increase outreach to the elderly and elderly families (General Discussion Elderly/BKL) involves a variety of activities and objectives are implemented the service for old-agers the health centers health center so hopefully would utilize the service for old-agers elderly