THE CORRELATION OF ELDERLY KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE TO THE UTILIZATION OF ELDERLY INTEGRATED SERVICE POST IN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF TANAH TINGGI BINJAI 2013

Abstract

Introduction Indonesia is a country that has a population in the world's fourth most populous. With a population more than 200 million people in 2000 to 7.5% or 15 million inhabitants are elderly residents. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report that elderly population in Indonesia in 2020 has reached 11.34% or 28.8 million people registered, 6.9% live babies that causes the elderly population in the world and based on Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) in the years 2005-2010 the number of elderly people will be equal to the number of children is 8.5% of the population or about 19 million people. Given the level of health and well-being is improving the survival rate of
Indonesia's population is also increasing (Hatta, 2006).
Methods This research is an analytical study with cross sectional method aims to identify the knowledge, attitudes, and the correlation between knowledge and attitudes of elderly with utilization of elderly integrated service post in Community Health Center of Tanah Tinggi Binjai. The population of elderly who utilize was 120 peoples. The sampling technique used purposive sampling by 55 respondents.
Result and Discussion Based on the research find that correlation between knowledge to the utilization of elderly integrated service post, the result P = 0.000 <0.05, the correlation between attitude to the utilization of elderly integrated service post with result P = 0.000 <0.05, meaning it can be concluded that there is a correlation between knowledge and attitude of elderly with utilization elderly integrated service post in community health center of Tanah Tinggi Binjai in 2013.
The suggestion is that health professionals must be able to improve understanding of information on the utilization of elderly integrated service post .