BACKGROUND Group reminiscence therapy is a brief and structured intervention in which participants share personal past events with peers. This approach has been shown to be promising for improving wellbeing and reducing depressive symptoms among institutionalized older adults. However, despite the considerable interest in reminiscence group therapy, controlled studies to determine its specific ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a new analysis and understanding the notion deinstitutionalization. Deinstitutionalization taken-for-granted practices as natural consequence ever-increasing entropy seems directly contradict major institutional thesis, namely, that over time isomorphic forces increase and, result, possibilities for deinstitutionalization decrease culminating in imp...