Pengelolaan Asuhan Keperawatan Gangguan Fungsi Kognitif pada Klien Lansia yang Mengalami Demensia dengan Penerapan Terapi Musik di Barisan Kuta Mbellang Karing Kelurahan Sidiangkat

Abstract

Elderly is an age group that has begun to enter the final stages of the life cycle. Elderly experience disorders in the ability to think, remember, communicate and carry out daily activities. Dementia is a stage of loss of intellectual ability, so that it can interfere with work or social activities. There are several changes in various aspects such as physical body shape, changes in thinking ability (cognitive), spiritual aspects, body organ function, and changes in the ability to adapt socially and mentally. Cognitive functions such as adaptive, language assessment, emotional disorders, memory, motivation, attention, having difficulty concentrating, learning to receive information, difficulty remembering something, speaking, planning, and difficulty starting and ending activities. This senior practice aims to carry out comprehensive nursing care and service management starting from assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation of cognitive dysfunction. The nursing process begins with an assessment of the individual, analyzing data, formulating a diagnosis, preparing an action plan, nursing, implementing it, then evaluating the achievements of nursing care that have been carried out. Given the implementation using music therapy, it can improve verbal fluency and reduce anxiety, depression, and apathy in certain patients living with dementia.