Pengaruh Senam Lansia terhadap Penurunan Stress pada Lansia di Panti Wredha Dharma Bhakti

Elderly is someone who is 60 years old and above. Cases that are often found in the elderly are stress. In old age the elderly should enjoy their old days happily, with their families and close relatives. But in reality many elderly people experience stress. Stress in the elderly has a negative impact including shortening life expectancy by worsening life expectancy by worsening the physical decline of the elderly. One of the therapies to overcome stress in elderly is to do elderly gymnastics regularly. The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of giving elderly gymnastics on reducing stress in the elderly. This research method uses a quantitative experimental method with a pretest-posttest design research design. The population of this study were all elderly people at Panti Werdha Dharma Bhakti. The sampling technique of this research is purposive sampling. The subjects of this study amounted to 6 elderly people. The intervention of this study is elderly gymnastics (aerobic). The stress measurement tool uses the Psychometric Properties of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 42 (DASS 42) questionnaire. Normality test using shapiro-wilk test and hypothesis using paired sample t-test. Based on the results of the paired sample t-test test, the t count is 8.510>t table 2.446 with a significance value of 0.000