Stress in the Digital Era, Elderly Sleep Disturbed? Research on PROLANIS Patience in Bawen Public Health Center Kabupaten Semarang Let’s Find The Solutions!

Abstract

The digital era has brought significant changes to human life, including the lives of the elderly. Difficulties in understanding technology and changes in modern lifestyles can cause stress that affects the body’s balance, including sleep quality. The elderly tend to experience a decrease in the duration of deep sleep due to the use of electronic devices until late at night. This habit disrupts the body’s circadian rhythm, which is the biological clock that regulates the sleep and wake cycle. Elderly people who are starting to get used to using social media or chat applications often find it difficult to ignore notifications that appear at night. This causes sleep quality to decline, thus affecting their physical and mental condition. To overcome the problem, a holistic approach and simple practices are applied in this research. The research design used a descriptive correlative with a cross-sectional approach and as a measuring tool for data collection using a questionnaire. The population in this research was 25 respondents from PROLANIS Patience in Bawen Public Health Center Kabupaten Semarang. The respondents’ ages ranged from 60 to 70 years old. The research showed there was an effective correlation between intervention programs that can help reduce the negative impacts of technology, as well as improve sleep quality and emotional well-being in the elderly.