Hubungan Riwayat Penyakit-Kronis Dengan Kualitas-Hidup Lansia Panti Jompo Di Era Pandemi COVID-19

Elderly-nursing-homes experience a high burden of chronic-disease during COVID-19 pandemic, due to restricted access to health services, which can affect their quality-of-life. Chronic-disease is a comorbid disease that worsens the condition of elderly who are infected with COVID-19. Elderly-group is one of the vulnerable-groups that have high morbidity and mortality during pandemic. Purpose of this study was to analyze quality-of-life and chronic-diseases of elderly living in nursing-homes during COVID-19 pandemic and relationship between the two. This study used a cross sectional design, and used WHOQOL-Bref quality-of-life questionnaire. Data analysis used Chi-Square test with a significant-level of <0.05. Results: From 70 elderly population at Kasih-Sayang-Ibu nursing-home (PSTW) in Batusangkar, Kabupaten Tanah-Datar, based on exclusion criteria, got sample 43 elderly. Characteristics of elderly: many (58.1%) elderly are >70 years old, 65.1% elderly are male, 55.8% elderly have a low level of education (SD), 100% elderly are Muslim, 100% elderly are widowed or do not have a partner, and 100% elderly are no longer working. Elderly who have chronic-disease are few (0-2PK) as-much-as 86.0%. Elderly who have poor quality-of-life are 74.4%. There is no relationship between Chronic-Disease and Poor Quality-of-Life for Elderly in a nursing-home with p=0.312