Correlation of Coping Mechanisms Towards Fulfillment Capabilities Daily Activities of Elderly

Along to the aging process, the elder got kinds of problem such as physical, psychological, social and spiritual. Coping mechanism is a method used by someone especially the elder to cope with their problems or tasks such as their Activity Daily Living (ADL) or basic activity that routinely did by the elder independently or with another person help. This study aim to know the correlation between coping mechanism towards to fulfillment the elder daily activities using cross-sectional study design with 132 respondents. The result showed that 95,4% elderly use adaptive coping mechanism, whose have independent ability are 87,3% from them. 14,6% elderly use maladaptive coping mechanism and whose dependent are 66,7% from them. Based on the result of range spearman test obtained correlation coefficient value is 0.502 with significancy value is 0.000. This result indicate that there is a significant correlation and quite close between coping mechanism and elderly ability to fill their daily activities. Problem or tasks encountered by the elder affect to their coping. The elderly are expected to use the coping adaptively to solve the problem, so the ability to fulfill daily activities can be carried out and fulfilled optimally