Abstract :
This study aims to determine the relationship between anxiety levels and family coping with the elderly who have chronic diseases in RW.13 and RW.14, Bojong Gede Village, Bogor Regency. This type of research is quantitative correlation with a cross sectional design to connect the variables in this study. The questionnaires used were ZSAS, and The JCS. The number of samples in this study were 52 respondents, family members with the elderly, the sampling technique was purposive sampling. The results showed a significant relationship between anxiety levels and coping with elderly families with chronic diseases with a p value of 0.02 (p < 0.05). Further research is recommended to do multi-regression analysis by analyzing other factors that have the most influence on family coping.
Keywords: elderly, anxiety, family coping, chronic disease