The life potential of the elderly age with value aging and quality

Abstract

This article aims to present the life potential of the elderly to be a guideline to develop the elderly to have the potential to live life, enable the elderly to be self-reliant, and to make the elderly have more value and quality. The elderly can adapt to a new situation and change in the current situation. The elderly have the strength and can build on activities for the elderly with activities to transfer knowledge and learning. The elderly only change their bodies, but their skills, knowledge, values, and experiences remain. The elderly can do activities that increase their potentiality and has characteristics that extend the body of knowledge such as learning to take care of health, mental development, socializing for mental health, having hobbies that generate income, or building self-worth to society. The elderly have pride in the work that makes it useful to the public, which has resulted in the development of social competence. The development of social abilities makes society more appreciative of the elderly. Therefore, the elderly need to be developed and continue to learn to raise the level of being an older person with more living potential.