Reminiscence therapy for older people suffering from loneliness, anxiety and depression: a review of the literature

Reminiscence therapy is generally used to treat mental health problems. Reminiscence therapy uses the recall of past events, feelings and thoughts to facilitate pleasure, quality of life or adaptation to present circumstances. Reminiscence therapy is believed to provide numerous benefits to older...

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Main Authors: Syed Elias, Sharifah Munirah, Neville, Christine, Scott, Theresa
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/47634/4/47634.pdf
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author Syed Elias, Sharifah Munirah
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description Reminiscence therapy is generally used to treat mental health problems. Reminiscence therapy uses the recall of past events, feelings and thoughts to facilitate pleasure, quality of life or adaptation to present circumstances. Reminiscence therapy is believed to provide numerous benefits to older people, especially those with loneliness, anxiety and depression. The aim of this review was to explore the literature related to reminiscence therapy for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression. This review considered all types of research design. The inclusion criteria were studies that included older people aged 60 years and over, and outcomes on loneliness, anxiety or depression. A literature search strategy involved published and grey literature. Twenty-four studies met the inclusion criteria. Five key themes were derived from the literature: integration of theories in reminiscence therapy, different classification of reminiscence therapy, factors that may influence reminiscence therapy, the effectiveness of reminiscence therapy and the integration of new elements in reminiscence therapy. Further research in this area is needed in terms of improvement of methodological quality such as rigorous control group and integration of new elements in reminiscence therapy
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:476342018-05-22T04:36:55Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/47634/ Reminiscence therapy for older people suffering from loneliness, anxiety and depression: a review of the literature Syed Elias, Sharifah Munirah Neville, Christine Scott, Theresa RT Nursing Reminiscence therapy is generally used to treat mental health problems. Reminiscence therapy uses the recall of past events, feelings and thoughts to facilitate pleasure, quality of life or adaptation to present circumstances. Reminiscence therapy is believed to provide numerous benefits to older people, especially those with loneliness, anxiety and depression. The aim of this review was to explore the literature related to reminiscence therapy for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression. This review considered all types of research design. The inclusion criteria were studies that included older people aged 60 years and over, and outcomes on loneliness, anxiety or depression. A literature search strategy involved published and grey literature. Twenty-four studies met the inclusion criteria. Five key themes were derived from the literature: integration of theories in reminiscence therapy, different classification of reminiscence therapy, factors that may influence reminiscence therapy, the effectiveness of reminiscence therapy and the integration of new elements in reminiscence therapy. Further research in this area is needed in terms of improvement of methodological quality such as rigorous control group and integration of new elements in reminiscence therapy 2015 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/47634/4/47634.pdf Syed Elias, Sharifah Munirah and Neville, Christine and Scott, Theresa (2015) Reminiscence therapy for older people suffering from loneliness, anxiety and depression: a review of the literature. In: The Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences 2015 , 26th-29th Mar. 2015, Osaka, Japan. http://iafor.org/issn-2187-476x-the-asian-conference-on-ethics-religion-philosophy-2015-official-conference-proceedings/
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Reminiscence therapy for older people suffering from loneliness, anxiety and depression: a review of the literature
title Reminiscence therapy for older people suffering from loneliness, anxiety and depression: a review of the literature
title_full Reminiscence therapy for older people suffering from loneliness, anxiety and depression: a review of the literature
title_fullStr Reminiscence therapy for older people suffering from loneliness, anxiety and depression: a review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Reminiscence therapy for older people suffering from loneliness, anxiety and depression: a review of the literature
title_short Reminiscence therapy for older people suffering from loneliness, anxiety and depression: a review of the literature
title_sort reminiscence therapy for older people suffering from loneliness anxiety and depression a review of the literature
topic RT Nursing
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/47634/4/47634.pdf
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