Depression is a common, and often undetected, psychiatric disorder in geriatric care home residents. Reminiscence, an independent nursing therapy used by a variety of health and social care professionals, can prevent or reduce depression. This practice development project explored the use of reminiscence life history books as an interpersonal therapeutic tool with 3 depressed care-home resident...

[Purpose] Interventions using music, physical exercise, and reminiscence therapy are widely used both for rehabilitation and care of the elderly. This study aimed to investigate the effect of structured interventions comprising music, physical exercise, and reminiscence therapy on cognitive function and quality of life of the community-dwelling elderly. [Subjects and Methods] The study included...

Reminiscence is used to support and create new social bonds and give meaning to life. Originally perceived as a preoccupation of the aged, we now recognize that reminiscence has value throughout the lifespan. Increasingly, social media can be used to both support and prompt reminiscence, with Facebook's Lookback or Year in Review as recent examples. This work takes prompted reminiscence further...

Elderly adults, particularly those experiencing institutionalization (permanent residence in a health care facility), face high rates of depression, low self-esteem, and reduced psychological well-being. Reminiscence therapy, the planned use of stimuli to evoke meaningful or positive memories from the past, has been indicated in prior research to be a promising treatment approach for reducing d...

To resolve the controversy regarding the adaptive benefits of reminiscence, the study was conducted to investigate what types of reminiscence are associated with successful aging. On the basis of prior research and content analysis, 6 types of reminiscence were identified: integrative, instrumental, transmissive, narrative, escapist, and obsessive. Successful aging was operationally defined as ...

Research on the psychological outcomes of reminiscence techniques has led to equivocal findings. The goal of this paper is to advance current theory guiding research on reminiscence by examining the implications of viewing reminiscence as a type of autobiographical memory. Butler’s classic paper on reminiscence as ‘ life review’ () is examined, and revisions to this approach are proposed ba...

Reminiscence therapy is garnering attention for stimulating seniors’ cognitive functions. It could be inferred that synergistic effects created by combining virtual reality (VR), which can project realistic images, with recall, stimulates memory. We hypothesized projecting memories to stimulate VR-based reminiscence would function better than conventional photo-based therapy. randomly assigned ...

This paper aimed to examine the clinical effects of reminiscence therapy on the cognitive function, depression, behavior problem, and quality of life of the Elderly with Dementia. Two researchers collected the data of 375 cases in the randomized controlled trials(RCT) with the experimental group and control group involved, among which, 10 cases were chosen for this study. Among the dependant va...