%0 Journal Article
%@ 0125-9695
%A Jamal, Sarjaini
%A Hestining, Pupus
%A Raharni, Raharni
%D 2000
%F bkpkkemkes:946
%I Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Kesehatan
%J Buletin Penelitian Kesehatan
%K elderly; disease; length of stay in hospital; FAR-BPPK
%N 1
%T Karakteristik Lansia yang Dirawat di Rumah Sakit Kelas A dan B
%U http://www.badankebijakan.kemkes.go.id/repositori/id/eprint/946/
%V 28
%X A study about elderly who seek hospital care in class A and B hospital has been caried out in October 1999.  About 245 elderly inpatient had been interviewed from 2 class A hospitals and 3 class B hospitals located in Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Jakarta, and Bandung.         Data  of age, day of care, and diseases were  collected by using a questionnaire and translated from patient card.        This study result show that  hospital inpatient of elderly consist of age 60- 64 years old (38.36%), and  65-69 years old (27.35%), and 70-74 years old (19.18%). Most of elderly had hospital stay of 2-6 days (46.53 %), and 7-11 days (30%). Stroke, hypertrophy of prostate gland, diabetes  mellitus, neoplasma, cardiac disease, hypertension, pneumonia, asthma, renal failure and gastritis are the ten most frequent diseases that had been detected. More than 55% elderly are diagnosted with poly-diseases (comorbidity).         This study suggested to the government and non government organization (NGO) to give more attention to the health problems of  elderly, particularly on hospital care and health education.