NERSMID: Jurnal Keperwatan dan Kebidanan
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2021): Oktober

Peran Senam Ergonomis Untuk Kesehatan Lansia

Vivin Indrianita (Universitas Merdeka Surabaya)
Nurul Ramadhani Yaner (Fakultas Ilmu Kesehatan, Universitas Merdeka Surabaya)



Article Info

Publish Date
09 Nov 2021

Abstract

The higher life expectancy of a country leads to a high number of elderly people followed by high health problems in the elderly both physically and psychologically. One of the efforts to suppress all complaints to the elderly is to do ergonomic gymnastics that has been proven to provide many benefits, especially to the elderly. Ergonomic gymnastics is a gymnastics that can directly open, clean, and activate the entire body systems such as cardiovascular, urinary, reproductive systems. These movements also allow the body to be able to control, ward off some diseases and malfunctions so that the body remains healthy. Literature search from February 2019 to June 2019 using the keywords "Benefits of Ergonomic Gymnastics for The Elderly", "The Influence of Ergonomic Gymnastics for Elderly Health", "Efforts to Maintain Elderly Health", "Factors that affect Elderly Health". A total of 10 articles were selected because they meet the criteria for inclusion, namely titles and content relevant to the purpose, written in English or Indonesian, full text, published in the last 7 years. From the 10 articles selected for the review, information related to the benefits of ergonomic gymnastics for the elderly, including ergonomic gymnastics can lower anxiety levels, can improve sleep quality / insomnia, decrease chronic pain and muscle weakness, and can improve the quality of life in the elderly.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

nersmid

Publisher

Subject

Health Professions Neuroscience Nursing Public Health Veterinary

Description

NERSMID: Journal of Nursing and Midwifery, published twice a year in May and October. Contains writings taken from the results of research in the field of midwifery and nursing. with ISSN numbers P-2580-1929 and E-2621-0231. Published by the Faculty of Health Sciences, Merdeka University, ...