According to data from the National Labour Force Survey
(Sakernas) in 2014, 47.48% elderly people are still working to fulfill
their needs. This elderly group is seen as a group who are at risk of
health problems, including physical health and mental health. The
most often mental health for them is depression. According to the
Disability Adjusted Life Year (DA LY), This problem of depression
will rank second in the world in 2020. The purpose of this study is to
analyze the relation between depression and work status of the
elderly in Posyandu Lanjut Usia Mojo Surabaya. This study uses an
analytic comparasion study design with observational studies, crosssectional
research methods, nonpropability sampling techniques,
especially consecutive sampling of the elderly in Posyandu Lanjut
Usia Mojo Surabaya with a total sample of 40 elderly. Analysis of
data using statistical Mann Whitney U Test. The Results are 35,0%
of elderly people are still working and 65,0% of elderly people are
not working or retired. While 37.5% of the elderly experienced
depression and 62.5% of the eldery not having a depression. From
the Mann Whitney test obtained p = 0.004 (p <0.05), so H0 is
rejected, meaning that there is a difference between the level of
depression elderly who are not working (retired) and the level of
depression elderly who are working.