“The greatest happiness beyond measure is at the moment when I see them happy. When a blind elderly heard my voice, she spontaneously called me "Mother". If only she met me merely as a staff, perhaps she just calls me a miss."

Those are some closing words of the sharing conversation with Frida Citra Dewi, founder of Karanglansia Rahayu, Danginpuri Kangin Village, Denpasar. The sentence reaffirmed her introduction at the beginning regarding the things that prompted her to initiate the establishment of an elderly community that covers one village. We visited her on purpose to find out more than just to confirm how a dissemination result of the elderly-friendly city capacity assessment study (conducted in 2013 with a sample of Denpasar City) was presented last year, inspiring the city's elderly policy. "My goal is none but looking for saving my hereafter, just inviting them to play for having fun," said Mother Frida, starting the conversation.

According to her, Karanglansia Rahayu is the only elderly community at the village level out of 42 wards in Denpasar city. The elderly activities in other villages are still scattered in every Banjar (hamlet). Even then its existence is between presence and absence depending on the activity of the elderly posyandu.

Mother Frida's age has not reached the pre-elderly category though, but that is not an excuse for her not to care about the elderly. In the past, she was also the administrator of the toddler posyandu in her Banjar. Now, she sees, parents of toddlers in urban areas are more concerned and understand about the health of their children. They have a lot of information literacy about toddler health. Meanwhile, who will care for the elderly?

She talked about the genesis of the Karanglansia Rahayu establishment on 27 February 2014. She assumed the current Denpasar city government paid enough attention to the issue of the elderly. Proven that the deputy mayor himself was the chairman of the Denpasar City Elderly Commission that had a plenary elderly posyandu program in every village. It was a kind of the peak of the furor for the elderly posyandu activities by implementing many services available for the needs of the elderly such as free health checks, providing additional food, competitions, or distribution of uniforms for the elderly. This program is held once a year in each village. It is usually held once a year in each village where the maintenance rotated in each banjar. The Danginpuri Kangin has 8 banjars.

She thinks to activate the elderly program: Shall we wait for the next plenary posyandu to hold on again? Shall we have to wait for 8 years to take care of the elderly? Why don't we make it on our own?

For Frida, the elderly need the attention of people who are not elderly. They need to be happy and something that can drive away loneliness in retirement probably causes them to become bad-tempered due to work syndrome. So, they need friends and community. However, excessive persuasion is needed to invite them to be active since most of them feel ashamed, unnecessary, and so on, until the problem is no support from their families.

Then, with the help of friends and all of the Klian (Head of Hamlet), she recorded all the elderly living in her village. Later formed a board from the elderly representatives of the entire banjar. “We made a proposal; we did fundraise to friends in the DPRD. Then the first thing I did was make uniforms for them, with that uniform, they feel recognized. Later, we invited them to join the elderly gymnastics, osteoporosis exercise,” said Frida.

The next activity was only added with psychological material and ice-breaking so that those with tremors were motivated to move. The regular exercise was carried out on Friday while the Osteoporosis was on Sunday. The big event like the elderly celebration was routinely held every 3 months.

“Initially only a few elderly interested in joining the Karanglansia Rahayu. Time by time, many of those who just joined stated they knew it by word of mouth. Why wasn't I invited? So that the number of members increasing to reach 120 people.  She explained it was still a small amount, quite far from the target since the elderly living in a banjar could reach 50 people. In the village, with a population of around 3000 people, the number of elderly reached 300 (10%). The reasons noticed for the inactivity of other elderly varies widely, from no one to deliver in transportation to feeling inferior on involvement for not wearing a uniform.

She calls herself just an organizer, not the owner of the community. She is happy to position herself as a public relations officer for the elderly community. During the launching and inauguration of the Karanglansia Rahayu management, she invited the Mayor. In fact, it was the Mayor who gave the name Karanglansia Rahayu which means safe or healthy elderly shelter.

To minimize expenses, she invited her community colleagues to share knowledge and proficiency with the elderly. Coincidentally, she is also the caretaker of an osteoporosis prevention organization in Denpasar. So for convenience and free of charge terms, gymnastics is the choice. In a talk show about the health of the elderly, especially the prevention and treatment of diabetes and rheumatism, she invited doctors who practice in her area to share. Luckily again, some of the elderly in their community are already information literate, and they continue to campaign the programs to their friends by word of mouth.

The talk show theme also developed. She and her colleagues in the community disassociated the participatory method that applied. They were invited to participate to arrange activities or to provide meeting materials. Among them were suggestions for consultation on household problems and their relations with children, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren. In a routine of 3-month activities, it was also associated with some events such as celebrating the National and the World Elderly Day, taking the moments as a reminder to them that days of celebration exist.

After several months of intense activity, Karangansia Rahanyu was registered and became a reference for the Denpasar City social service, the elderly commission, and other government institutions. They were always invited both from the service office or the elderly commission on activities regarding the elderly topics. Likewise, if there is an elderly talk show from the hospital and the Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, the community must be invited to get involved. In a number of activities, Karanglansia Rahayu collaborated with the Manuaba and the Puri Raharja hospitals even though they were outside the village area.

Despite being young age, the Karanglansia Rahayu community had a memorable experience. They were involved in elderly research conducted by lecturers and students of Japan Sinjoku University a few months ago. They became research objects for 6 months got treatment putting on removable tools except when bathing to measure fitness. They were even happy to find out blood sugar levels, the pulse and tension of the heart, and so on for free. The Japanese researcher's impression was surprised themselves by the enthusiasm of the Karanglansia Rahayu members.