Pengelolaan Asuhan Keperawatan Hipertensi pada Lansia dengan Prioritas Masalah Pemenuhan Nutrisi di Lingkungan IX Kelurahan Tanjung Rejo

Abstract

The incidence of hypertension in the elderly in Indonesia is still high, therefore it is necessary to treat hypertension in the elderly to prevent complications from other diseases due to hypertension. Handling and prevention of hypertension can be done by changing the fulfillment of nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. Nursing problems that arise in fulfilling nutrition in elderly hypertensive patients are the risk of nutritional deficits, more nutrition than body requirements and nutritional deficits related to psychological factors. The goal of DASH diet therapy is to reduce high blood pressure, reduce the risk (overweight, high cholesterol and uric acid levels in the blood). In the case of elderly hypertension found in the Tanjung Rejo Subdistrict, the implementation of nursing is aimed at increasing knowledge about the hypertensive DASH diet which will affect the attitudes and behavior of patients and families in an effort to follow the hypertensive DASH diet as an effort to adopt a healthy lifestyle. Forms of activities carried out as an effort to promote health for the elderly with hypertension are health education, using leaflets, setting the DASH diet menu, and measuring vital signs. The results of the nursing evaluation found that there was a decrease in blood pressure after the dash diet, changes in behavior from patients starting on a hypertension diet gradually by consuming low-fat foods, patients reducing fatty foods and consuming lots of fruits and vegetables, food processing at home in patients has been carried out separately, Reducing salt use has been carried out by family members and hypertensive patients themselves. In these three cases the implementation must take quite a long time because it is related to changes in healthy living behavior by changing eating habits.