THE EFFECT OF TRADITIONAL GAME STIMULATIONS AND DEPRESSION ON MEMORY LOSS AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN ELDERLY DEMENTIA

Abstract

Introduction

Elderly often experience dementia, and dementia is a serious problem. World Alzheimer's Reports (2015) noted with dementia will be the biggest health crisis in this century, the number of patients continues to grow. Indonesia have 1 million more people with dementia in 2015. Traditional of game east java is solution for prevention memory loss and cognitive lost

Method

This research used quasy experiment design with pre-posttest design control method. The population of this research was  seven member of  a district who plays role as the stimulation of traditional game for dementia elderly. This study employs the purposive sampling method. The data is gathered through interviews and field notes that is then analyzed with the Collaizi technique. This research generated three themes

Result

The results illustrate families display the grieving process as a cycle. They feel a deep, permanent and long period of grief  through in to five stages of grief: denial, anger, depression, bargaining and acceptance. The Grieving is come from the caregiver and the autism child. Large amounts of grief cause families in grief for a long period and this causes family burden. There are six family burden, psychological burden, physical burden, financial burden, social burden, time burden and thought burden

Conclusion   

Finding of the research would hopefully be beneficial to professional health staff, especially psychiatric nurses to complete their ability in minimizing various negative impacts that the family may suffer from while taking care their autism children with autism through nursing care plans designs development, researches about family empowerment in burden managements and also a research to improve the Family Psycho-education Therapy and a specific Supportive Group Therapy modules for family with autism children.