Abstract :
The elderly are part of the age group that has entered the final cycle of a person's life phase. At
this stage, several problems occur. One of them is sleep disorders. Sleep quality is a condition
that is expected by someone to get from various aspects, which include quantitative aspects of
sleep such as sleep latency, sleep duration, and subjective aspects of sleep. Insomnia is a symptom
experienced by people who experience chronic sleep difficulties, frequent wakefulness, and short
or deep sleep. There are various treatments for insomnia, both pharmacological and nonpharmacological. Murotal therapy is one solution to improve the quality of sleep in the elderly
who have difficulty sleeping. The purpose of writing this scientific paper is to apply murotal
therapy on elderly patients to reduce sleep disorders. This application was carried out on May 2-
7, 2023 at Panti Sosial Tresna Werdha Rukun Ibu. This writing method is carried out by
observation, questionnaire content, interviews, and literature studies. Murotal therapy was given
to patients for five days concecutively to patients when entering bedtime and was carried out for
15-20 minutes. The results of murotal therapy showed that it could reduce sleep pattern disorders
in patients. Suggestions from the author that murotal therapy can be applied in reducing sleep
disorders in insomnia sufferers, especially in elderly patients