THE IMPACT OF REMINISCENCE THERAPY AND LEMON AROMATHERAPY TREATMENT COMBINATION ONTHE STRESS OF ELDERLY IN BUDI DHARMA ELDERCARE OF UMBULHARJO YOGYAKARTA

Abstract

Elderly is a person who enter > 60 years of age.Elderly will experience aging process and degradation of function especially the cognitive function which can cause stress on elderly if not being managed. The results of interview toward 8 elderlies in Budi Dharma Eldercare have indicated that elderlies were often having sleep disruption, being short-tempered, easily offended, agitated, and having the decrease in appetite. Stress is a physical and psychological reaction. The stress management can be done by implementing non-pharmacologist therapies, namely through the combination of Reminiscence therapy and lemon Aromatherapy as the method of expression by remembering the old memories along with inhaling lemon aromatherapy. Discovering the impact of Reminiscence Therapy and Lemon Aromatherapy Combination on Stress of Elderly in BudhiDarma Eldercare of Umbulharjo, Yogyakarta. Research method Quasi-experimental quantitative study with pre and post tests nonequivalent control group. Simple random sampling was used as the sample technique. The number of respondents was amounted 35 respondents. This research used DASS 42 as the instrument. The impact of therapies was analyzed through Wilcoxon and Mann Whitney tests. The stress scoresof the intervention group were 16.89 in mean before the therapy and 5.56 in mean after the therapy. The difference of stress scores of post and pre tests were p-value = 0.000 (p<0.05) on the intervention group and p-value = 0.162 (p<0.05) on the control group. The impact of reminiscence therapy on post test of both group is p-value = 0.000 (p<0.05). There is an impact of the Reminiscence therapy and lemon aromatherapy combination on the Stress of Elderly

Keywords: elderly, stress, reminiscence therapy and lemon aromatherapy combination.