| dc.description.abstract | Social interaction is important in social life, including for the elderly who live at Panti
Lansia Binjai. With the establishment of good social interaction, it will make the elderly
feel at home and comfortable living in an elderly home. However, if the social
interaction between the elderly, caregivers and companions is not good, it will create a
sense of competition and tend to experience sadness in the elderly.
The purpose of this research is to find out how the process of social interaction is
formed between fellow elderly, caregivers, and companions at the Panti Lansia Binjai
and the inhibiting factors of social interaction among fellow elderly, caregivers and
companions. This study used a q ualitative research method with a descriptive approach.
In collecting data using direct observation methods, interviews and documentation. The
data analysis techniques used are data reduction, data display and conclusion.
The research results obtained are social interaction processes, namely associative
processes in the form of cooperation, accommodation and assimilation and dissociative
processes in the form of competition, conflict and quarrels. The social interactions that
occur between the elderly, caregivers and companions at the Panti Lansia Binjai can be
seen through the establishment of communication in the form of conversation, mutual
understanding, cooperation, openness and empathy, mutual support/motivation, having
a positive feeling and a sense of similarity with others, where it is an indicator of social
interaction.
Social interactions that are well established between the elderly, caregivers and
companions make residents of the elderly home feel comfortable and feel at home living
and working at the Panti Lansia Binjai. | en_US |
