Abstract: Demographic ageing is a global phenomenon. The world's population is ageing and by 2025, the world's population is expected to include more than 830 million people at an age of 65. Depression is one of the leading causes of disease burden globally and in low- and middle-income countries. Globally, depression is ranked as the single largest contributor to non-fatal health loss, accounting for 7.5% of global years lived with disability and 2.0% of global disability adjusted life years in 2015. Reminiscence therapy is a method of using the memory to protect mental health and improve the quality of life. Thus study was conducted to assess and compare the pre test and post test depression among geriatric population The research approach adopted for the study was Experimental approach with pre -experimental one group pretest –post test design. The convenient sampling technique was used to select the old age home and purposive sampling technique was adopted for selecting the study subjects. The sample for the present study was 150 study subjects.
The tool used for data collection was Standardized Geriatric Depression Scale(GDS). Results have shown that reminiscence therapy was effective in decreasing the level of depression among research participants significantly. It is concluded that reminiscence is potentially effective methods for the enhancement of psychological well-being in older adults.
Keywords: Depression, Geriatric Depression Scale, Reminiscence therapy.
Title: Effectiveness of Reminiscence Therapy on Depression among Geriatric Population living in old age homes of Punjab
Author: Mr. Navdeep Bansal, Dr. Kanwaljit Gill
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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