PENGETAHUAN DAN SIKAP USILA TERHADAP KESEHATAN GIGI

Health services improvement to the elderly research has been done in 6 public health centers selected in Jakarta. It was a quasi experiment, used an area control for comparation. The respondents were the patients who 55 years old and over (elderly), lived in surrounding the public health center, collected since 1996 to May 1998. The number of respondents for each public health center 50 persons male and female.The intervention covered communication, information and education to the health providers and the respondents as well. Besides, they also has been dental observed covered plaque indexand calculus index, to get the oral hygiene index.The primary data collected were the characteristics of respondents, the knowledge of thedental health, and the dental observation for the respondents has been conducted before andafter intervention. While the secondary data were the dental health program for the elderly information. The activities of monitoring has been done 4 times during 4 months, and descriptive analysed was the last activity.The results showed that the knowledge of the elderly on dental health was improve afterintervention, and they more realized that sustain dental observation was very important activity for a certain interval of time.Recommendation: Improvement the dental observation in public health center, especiallyfor the elderly, as well as the communication, information, and education about dental health program continously will be very usefull. Key words: Dental Care; Age