Proposing a Healthy Environment for Elderly People with Hypertension: Taichi gymnastic against blood pressure

Abstract. Hypertension is a problem which is often undergone by elderly people and become an
important factor caused heart trouble. Hypertension prevalence is 32.4%, and in the place of this
study, hypertension prevalence numbers 50 from 80 elderly people. The design of this study used
was quasi experimental non equivalent control group design. The populations were all of elderly
people with hypertension as much as 50 elderly people, the samples were 46 elderly people, who
was divided into experimental and control groups, each of them were 23 elderly people. The data
were obtained through observation analyzed with Wilcoxon signed ranks test, whereas to
understand the difference between before after Tai Chi gymnastics used Mann Whitney test. The
result of analysis with Wilcoxon signed ranks test was p=0,000 < α=0.05 which meant that there
is the effect of Tai Chi gymnastics towards the decrease of blood pressure, while by using Mann
Whitney test was gained p=0,016 < α=0.05, that there was the difference between before and after
Tai Chi gymnastics. From the result of the study, it proved that Tai Chi gymnastics can lower the
blood pressure if it was undertook three times a week to elderly people with hypertension.