Starfruit (malangkota.go.id) – The Polowijen Health Center in Malang City strives to provide the best service for the elderly by presenting innovations that are currently being promoted. One of these innovations is the Establishment of a Hypertension Corner (Potensi) in RW 6, Balearjosari Village, on Tuesday (30/5/2023).

Head of Polowijen Health Center, drg Ratna Yulia, explained that this Potensi innovation was created to improve services to the community, especially the elderly. This activity has been pioneered in the RW 6 area, Balearjosari Village.
"We present our potential to serve people who have a lot of hypertension, especially in the RW 6 area, we found many people who have hypertension," explained Yulia on Tuesday (30/5/2023).
In addition to services for hypertension, Puskesmas Polowijen also provides blood sugar and cholesterol checks, because these are also common in the elderly. We also provide nutritional consultations, because hypertension can actually be prevented through a good and proper diet.
We also provide physiotherapy, considering that many elderly people experience complaints such as joint pain due to gout. We provide simple treatments that can be done at home, such as movement and massage, so that it can help healing.
With this Potential, we hope to hold activities consistently, with doctor consultations at the Elderly Posyandu. We also carry out elderly gymnastics at several of our elderly Posyandu.
"By moving, complaints of joint pain are also reduced so that the elderly do not just sit still," explained Yulia.
By maintaining good health, it is expected that the elderly will remain healthy and productive, and can prevent dementia. Through social interaction and meeting with peers, it turns out that it also has a big influence in overcoming dementia.
All these activities have been carried out routinely at the Elderly Posyandu, including blood sugar checks considering the high number of diabetes sufferers. The follow-up is to carry out activities consistently at the Elderly Posyandu.
The Polowijen Health Center is also running a pilot project in RW 6, Balearjosari Village to make the Elderly Posyandu more complete. There, there are doctor consultations and nutritional services, because so far more treatment has been carried out.
Furthermore, the hope is to be able to spread this innovation to other RW and sub-districts, considering that the Polowijen Health Center serves three sub-districts in Malang City, namely Polowijen, Purwodadi, and Balearjosari Sub-districts.
In the future, it is hoped that Posyandu can be independent, so that it can serve the life cycle, starting from pregnant women, toddlers, teenagers, elderly, with the role of cadres who have 25 tasks to become an Independent Posyandu. (cah)