Retirement should make people happy because they can enjoy their elderly. But otherwise retirement is often<br />estimated as a reality that can not be satisfied so before the time comes partially the people fell worried<br />because they do not know what kind of life they will face later. The purpose of this research was to know the<br />effect of therapeutic communication to the elderly anxiety in facing retirement to the pre elderly in the village<br />of Dempelan district of Madiun Madiun regency.This research design was one group pre test post tets<br />design. The population was all employers who would experience retirement in the village of Dempelan<br />district of Madiun Madiun regency was a number of 12 people. The sampling technique used was total<br />sampling with the sample a number of 12 people. The variable in this research consisted of independent<br />variable that’s therapeutic communication and the dependent variable was the anxiety in facing retirement to<br />the pre elderly. The research instrument used questionnaire with data processing by editing, coding, scoring,<br />tabulating and the statistic test used wilcoxon. The research result showed that’s most of anxiety in facing<br />retirement which given therapeutic communication was moderate amounted 7 respondent (58,3%) and most<br />of anxiety in facing retirement which given therapeutic communication was normal amounted 8 respondent<br />(66,7%). The test of wilcoxon showed that’s the significant value of ï² = 0,000 &lt; ï¡ (0,05), so H0 rejected and<br />H1 accepted. The conclusion is that there’s relation of therapeutic to the elderly anxiety in facing in facing<br />retirement to the pre elderly in the village of Dempelan district of Madiun Madiun regency.