PHENOMENOLOGY STUDY: COPING MECHANISM OF OLDER ADULTS SUBMITTED BY THE FAMILY TO HOME NURSING ELDERLY

Abstract

The older adults  receive a variety of changes that occur and able to adapt to its limitations, wiser to respond to the process of life experienced. On the contrary if it fails to pass this stage  elderly people are experiencing stressful conditions, a sense of rejection, Angry and despair of the reality he faces. This condition make the older adults need to have a coping mechanism to avoid psychological problems. This research aims to exproposing the mechanism of coping with the elderly submitted by the family to the Orphanage. This phenomenology study applied an  in-depth interview and involving ten older adults were selected through snowball sampling techniques. Through analysis methods by Collaizi, produces five themes. These themes undergo psychological changes, older adults response while in home nursing elderly sosial service tresna werdha, the view of the elderly while in panti Werdha, adaptive coping used by the older adults when the family brought them to the Werdha orphanage, older adults hope for families who have brought the elderly to the orphanage. These findings strengthen the justification for involve psycho-social aspects of  geriatric nursing