Implementasi Terapi Musik Klasik Kepada Lansia Yang Menderita Hipertensi Di Panti Sosial Tresna Werdha Harapan Kita Palembang

Abu Bakar Sidik (STIK BINA HUSADA PALEMBANG)

Empowerment: Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022): JANUARI 2022

More than one-fifth of the world's adults had hypertension.  Hypertension caused 9. 4 million deaths worldwide each year (who, 2015).  According to riskesdas 2018 data, more than 63 million indonesians currently had hypertension.  The mortality rate due to hypertension reached 27,218 people, and the number of deaths due to hypertension in 6075-year-old people reached 55. 2%.  In the elderly, music therapy could been used to reduce anxiety, depression, and lowered blood pressure.  The goal of implementing this therapy was to understand and been able to practiced classical music therapy for the elderly with hypertension at the tresna werdha harapan kita social institute in palembang.  Activities were conducted in the form of instruction and simulation of the used of music therapy instruments.  It had been concluded that classical music therapy could helped cure hypertension patients.