High life expectancy among the elderly will have its own effect on the elderly’s community. The development of the elderly’s physical condition and health is much different compared to the youth. With health education and positive activity, the elderly can maintain fitness. One of the media to remind the elderly is using the LASERI(A Healthy and Independent Elderly) pocketbook. It is a pocketbook that contains knowledge and education aimed to make the elderly healthy and independent. The information in the pocketbook is ranging from several congenital diseases to additional knowledge in maintaining and improving the physical condition of the elderly. This study aims to analyze the use of the LASERI pocketbook for the elderly by knowing how this pocketbook can improve understanding for the elderly, especially during this pandemic COVID-19, where everyone, especially the elderly need to get distance themselves from other people.Aquasi-experimental designusing pre-test and post-test in one group design is the method used in this study.During the research, a questionnaire is performed to measure the elderly knowledge. There are 18 items that are being asked which are about the general health problems provided in the pocketbook. A total of 166 respondents ranging from young, middle, and old elderly were being the participants of this study. From the t-test result, there is a significant increase in health problems before and after the elderly are given the intervention, which is 16.1627 and 18.7771. In conclusion, there is an increase in health knowledge by providing media using the LASERI pocketbook to the elderly. This promotion of health education activity needs to be run continuously, especially during the pandemic COVID-19. With the help of the LASERI pocketbook, it can increase the elderly’s knowledge as well as the elderly’s self-efficacy.

Keywords: Education, Elderly, Health, Independent, Pocketbook , Self-efficacy