Elderly Protection and Empowerment Towards Elderly Healthy, Independent, Quality, Creative and Productive

Abstract

One indicator of development success, increasing life expectancy causes the number of elderly people (elderly) to continue to increase as well as challenges in development. In fact, the elderly cannot gain access from the results of development so that they cannot meet the needs of their lives adequately. In addition, the aging process of the population has an impact on various aspects of life, both social, economic, and health because the function of the body's organs will decrease both due to natural factors and due to illness. This article aims to implement Law No. 13 of 1998 concerning Elderly Welfare towards healthy, independent, quality, creative and productive elderly so that their welfare is realized, the maintenance of Indonesia's cultural and kinship system and closer to God Almighty are maintained. The method of implementation through the collection of secondary data from the results of activities to improve social welfare for the elderly, display, reduction and analysis of data and drawing conclusions. The realization of healthy, independent, quality, creative and productive elderly, through easy access, various social services and training.