Background: Elderly is a closing period in a person's life span, namely a period when a person has moved from a more useful and productive time. With increasing age, physiological function decreases due to the aging process so that joint disease appears in the elderly. One of the joint diseases in the elderly is gout arthritis. There are two ways to reduce uric acid, pharmacological and non-pharmacological. Non-pharmacological can be done by giving ginger compresses to reduce pain levels. Objective: The purpose of this paper is to determine the effectiveness of ginger compresses to reduce pain levels in the elderly with gout problems. Method: Case study design using nursing care. The case study sample used 1 patient. Results: Based on the implementation results on Mr. S with the application of ginger compress therapy for 7 days the pain scale decreased, the first and second days a pain scale of 5, on the third and fourth days a pain scale of 4, on the fifth and sixth days a pain scale of 2 and on the seventh day a pain scale of 1 with uric acid levels on day the first was 8 mg/dl and on the seventh day the uric acid level was 7.3 mg/dl, so a nursing diagnosis of chronic pain, it can be concluded that there is a change towards improvement, this shows the effect of giving ginger compresses on reducing pain levels.

Community nursing or community health nursing is the practice of maintaining and improving public health using knowledge from nursing, social sciences and public health sciences. Another definition of community nursing is a form of professional service based on nursing knowledge and tips aimed primarily at high-risk groups to improve community health status by emphasizing efforts to improve health, disease prevention and not neglecting curative and rehabilitative (Kholifah & Widagdo, 2016). In RW 04 Kelurahan Periuk Jaya, which is a village with densely populated residential houses with houses attached to one another, the average building in Pabuaran village has new buildings but is not well maintained and settlements are dominated by old buildings. own property, in terms of the environment the area of ??the house has a yard, there are several cattle pens around the settlement. The characteristics of the area and health problems that arise in RW 04 Periuk Jaya Village are information about prevention and diet for Hypertension, Gout Arthritis and ISPA. To carry out this task requires a person nurses who are competent in providing community nursing care, to get optimal results requires experience in addition to knowledge. One way to gain experience is through community nursing practice in Periuk Jaya Village RW 04 Periuk District, Tangerang City