Elderly need intensive exposure to health education to recognize and prevent diseases, like a degenerativeand infectious disease. Any chance when elderly gather and spend significant time, like 30-60 minutes of waitingtime for withdrawing pension money in the bank can be utilized as an opportunity to deliver health educationmessage. This initiated collaboration among pension bank and general practitioners to perform specific healtheducation program to elderly in their waiting room. This study investigates how health education and consultationprogram in the pension bank would be useful to change elderly health perspective, behavior, and morbidity. Across-sectional comparative study was conducted to 438 elderlies in 10 cities of 14 pension bank branchesin Indonesia in 2014-2015. We divided them into two groups: health education participants (n=345) and nonparticipants(n=93) to compare their health perspective, behavior, and morbidity after six months of educationexposure. Elderly perspective on healthy lifestyle was elicited using a set of 11 questions that were graded on aLikert scale of 1-5 where one = less important to 5 = most important. We also recalled whether they conductedactive lifestyle and had a history of illness in the last three months. Participants group had a significant increasein health perspectives, especially about the importance of regular health checking and maintaining a healthy diet(p<0.05). They also had fewer case of chronic illnesses (p=0.01, OR 0.51 IK95% 0.30-0.89). Their active lifestylewas also increased but not significant (p=0.164). Health education in the waiting room of pension bank wasproven effective to improve health perspective and decrease long term illnesses in the elderly. With standardizededucation module and cooperation with the trained health educator, this approach of optimizing queuing time inthe waiting room of pension bank can be applied to intensify access to health education for elderly. Keywords: health education, elderly, morbidity, health behavior. Efektivitas Edukasi Kesehatan di Ruang Tunggu Bank dalam MeningkatkanPersepsi Kesehatan dan Perilaku serta Menurunkan Morbiditas Lansia Abstrak Lanjut usia (lansia) memerlukan edukasi kesehatan intensif sehingga dapat mengenali serta mencegah penyakitdegeneratif dan infeksi. Kesempatan lansia berkumpul dan menghabiskan waktu bersama, seperti menunggu di bank30-60 menit saat pengambilan uang pensiun dapat digunakan untuk edukasi kesehatan. Hal tersebut menginisiasikerja sama antara bank dengan perhimpunan dokter umum untuk menerapkan program edukasi kesehatan di ruangtunggu bank. Studi ini meneliti efektivitas edukasi dan konsultasi kesehatan di bank dalam mengubah persepsikesehatan dan perilaku lansia, serta menurunkan morbiditasnya. Studi potong lintang komparatif dilakukan pada438 orang lansia di 10 kota di 14 cabang bank di Indonesia tahun 2014-2015. Subyek dibagi dua grup: lansia yangberpartisipasi dalam edukasi kesehatan (n=345) dan tidak berpartisipasi (n=93) untuk membandingkan persepsi,perilaku, dan riwayat penyakit 6 bulan pasca edukasi kesehatan. Persepsi lansia tentang hidup sehat dan aktifdianalisis menggunakan 11 pertanyaan dengan gradasi skala Likert 1-5 dari kurang penting sampai paling penting.Lansia juga ditanyakan mengenai penerapan hidup sehat aktif dan apakah memiliki riwayat penyakit selama 3 bulanterakhir. Kelompok lansia yang berpartisipasi mengalami peningkatan persepsi pentingnya pemeriksaan kesehatansecara teratur dan mengatur pola makan (p<0,05) dan penurunan riwayat penyakit kronik (p=0,01; RO 0,5 IK95%0,30-0,89). Gaya hidup sehat meningkat namun tidak signifikan (p=0,164). Edukasi lansia di ruang tunggu bankpensiun efektif meningkatkan persepsi kesehatan dan menurunkan morbiditas penyakit kronik. Dengan moduledukasi terstandar dan penyuluh kesehatan yang terlatih, pendekatan optimalisasi waktu menunggu di bank dapatditerapkan sebagai contoh model untuk meningkatkan akses edukasi kesehatan kepada lansia. Kata kunci: penyuluhan kesehatan, lanjut usia, morbiditas, perilaku kesehatan.

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