Role Of Nurse In The Treatment Of Elderly Patients

The more the increase in people with age above 60 years, the community faced various problems in the care. Nurses must take responsibility in caring for elderly patients so that they can become a happy, healthy and physically able to work wherever possible as long as possible within the limits of their abilities.

Nurses should be able to perform satisfactory interpersonal relationships with

Challenge of Gerontic Nursing in Indonesia

Rapid development in the medical world, economics, and science technology to increase life expectancy in Indonesia. It automatically brings the consequence of an increasing number of elderly. The United Nations estimates that Indonesia as one of the countries with the highest explosion in the number of elderly in the world, more than 400% within a period of 35 years. In 2025, Indonesia is

Roles and Responsibilities of Nurses Gerontic

The phenomenon that becomes the field of nursing gerontik is unfulfilled basic human needs of elderly as a result of the aging process.

Scope of Nursing Gerontic include
1. Prevention of disability due to the aging process
2. The treatment is intended to meet the needs due to the aging process
3. Recovery efforts aimed at addressing the needs due to the aging process

In practice Nursing