Hubungan Dukungan Keluarga Dengan Keaktifan Lansia Mengikuti Posyandu Lansia

Background: Family support has a great influence on the activeness of the elderly participating in posyandu with the support of elderly families can be motivated in participating in posyandu activities. Motivation has several forms of elements such as needs, drives, and goals. In addition to support from the family, things that affect the activity of the elderly participating in posyandu are the existence of good cadre support, the purpose of this research is to find out the relationship between family support and the activeness of the elderly participating in posyandu for the elderly.

Method: This type of research is a quantitative observational analytical research with a cross sectional design on 133 respondents. The sampling technique uses nonprobability sampling with a purposive sampling technique approach. The research instrument used was a family support questionnaire for attendance.

Results: The results of the study on family support were good 78.8%, adequate 13.3% and less 6.7% while in the elderly active category >8 attendance (37.6%) and <8 83 attendance (62.4). The results of the spearman corelative test obtained a p value of (0.014) <0.05 with a positive correlation of 0.213 which has a weak strength so that it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between family support and the activity of the elderly participating in posyandu.

Conclusion: Family support is very important for the elderly to participate in participating in the elderly posyandu. Families who support the elderly to carry out posyandu activities can motivate, encourage or provide information to the elderly about the importance of participating in elderly posyandu activities.