SELF CARE ABILITY

According to WHO definition, self-care ability refers to "activities individuals, families, and communities undertake with the intention of enhancing health, preventing disease, limiting illness, and restoring health’’ (WHO, from answers.com). In some others prospects, self-care ability defined as self-care is some of individual behavior for a person maintaining health or having disease detection and treatment (from answers.com). In addition, self-care ability means a person is able to have self-care behavior without professional assistant. However, persons are knowledgeable at technical skills and knowledge, they are from professional and lay experience (answers.com).

2.2.2 Dimensions of Self Care Ability

There is no particular definition of self-care ability. The definitions depend to who takes part in self-care behavior such as personal, family and community; the purpose of self-care ability behavior such as being healthy and preventing disease; and which health care professional participate (answers.com). People can understand self-care ability in many different ways. Firstly, self-care can be dimension as mind, body and spirit (By Dorothy M Neddermeyer PhD.). Dorothy purposed that self-care is more related to take-care mental health. For example, human beings need to choose what they believe and have good living. Second, Second, self-care ability also refers to have self-care behavior without external assistant. Self-care is a behavior which refers to keep physical health, limited illness and preventing diseases. At last, Barthel Index is a professional tool which is widely used in measuring elderlies self-care ability. For example, self-care professionals (eg. Occupational Therapist) use Barthel Index to measure self-care behavior and ability. Barthel Index’s purpose of self-care ability is that a