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Abstract
The elderly attendance rate at the elderly integrated service centre for healthy sources of kangkung village is only 14.31%, this is far from the national coverage rate of 80%. The role of the volunteer is one of the factors supporting the presence of the elderly, through increasing the role of volunteer it is expected to be able to increase elderly visits. The Objective of this research to describe the role of the volunteer in the elderly integrated service centre in the village of kangkung. This research used descriptive research with cross-sectional approach. The study population was a cadre of healthy elderly integrated service centre sources kangkung village mranggen district. The research sample uses a total sampling technique. Data analysis in this study used univariate. As many as 12 people (60%) volunteer played a good role as coordinators, as many as 12 people (60%) played a good role as community mobilizers, as many as 10 people (50%) played a good role as providers of health promotion, as many as 15 people (75 %) played a good role in terms of basic aid providers, as many as 16 people (80%) played a good role in the documentation. The role of coordinator, community mobilizer, basic assistance provider and documentation has been going well, the role as health promotion provider is still poor. The volunteer is expected to be more active in playing roles in improving the services of elderly integrated service centre.
Highlights
An increase in the morbidity rate for the elderly wherein 2014 the morbidity rate for the elderly was (25.05%) and in 2015 it increased to (28.62%).[1] is evidence that the elderly group is one of the community groups risks of disease, when viewed from the region, the health of the elderly living in urban areas tends to be better than the elderly living in rural areas, according to data the morbidity rate for the elderly in urban areas is (26, 89%) while the morbidity rate for the elderly in rural areas is (30.14%).[1]
The role of cadres as a good coordinator in terms of, active cadres attend coordination meetings, active cadres propose a division of tasks to the elderly integrated service centre coordinator, active cadres propose plans for achieving goals in coordination meetings, cadres can perform different roles in the implementation of the elderly integrated service centre, and cadres play a role when preparing for the implementation of the elderly integrated service centre
The role of cadres as good community activists in terms of active cadres attending meetings with village leaders to discuss technical issues and the problem of funding elderly integrated service centre and active cadres to mobilize the presence of the elderly through announcements on the forum and conducting pickup in elderly homes, this is because the village officials are a very open dialogue with cadres and successful organizing in community empowerment.[5,6]
Summary
An increase in the morbidity rate for the elderly wherein 2014 the morbidity rate for the elderly was (25.05%) and in 2015 it increased to (28.62%).[1] is evidence that the elderly group is one of the community groups risks of disease, when viewed from the region, the health of the elderly living in urban areas tends to be better than the elderly living in rural areas, according to data the morbidity rate for the elderly in urban areas is (26, 89%) while the morbidity rate for the elderly in rural areas is (30.14%).[1]Kangkung village has an elderly population of 834 people or (11.1%) of the total population of 7488 people. According to data from the health centre mranggen one the year 2018 most diseases suffered by the elderly are hypertension (57%), joint disease (40%), anaemia (30%), cataracts (15%). These diseases are the main causes of decreasing the degree of health and productivity of the elderly. One of the efforts of the community in responding to the health problems of the elderly, especially in the village of kangkung is to establish a healthy elderly at the elderly integrated service centre, this elderly integrated service centre has been established in 2009 and has 20 cadres. The attendance list of elderly in elderly integrated service centre Sumber Sehat in the past year shows that the coverage number of elderly integrated service centre visits from sources is only 14.31%
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