This article describes the therapeutic values of project “Remembering Yesterday, Caring in Dementia Care” for people living with dementia. Project was established European Reminiscence Network partners Union, which also operates USA, Canada, Latin America, Australia and India. The programme is based on use creative reminiscence interpersonal interaction work to “[…] rediscover celebrate one’s i...

As the segment of the population 65 years of age or older continues to grow, the number of individuals with dementia increases proportionally, highlighting the need to design therapies that meet the social and emotional needs of people with dementia. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are potential venues for supporting the delivery of such therapies, including reminiscence therap...

OBJECTIVES This study integrated results from controlled trials of reminiscence interventions. METHODS Meta-analysis was used to aggregate results from 128 studies on 9 outcome VARIABLES. RESULTS Compared to non-specific changes in control-group members, moderate improvements were observed at posttest with regard to ego-integrity (g=0.64) and depression (g=0.57 standard deviation units). Sm...

Purpose To explore the value in reminiscing about past festivals as a potential way of improving wellbeing socially isolated times. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses previous research on reminiscence, nostalgia and to underpin analysis self-recorded memory narratives. These were gathered from 13 pairs festivalgoers during Covid-19 restrictions included gathering their individual memori...

Objective: The study aimed to examine the effect of group reminiscence therapy among elderly people who living nursing homes. 
 Methods: This randomized controlled trial was performed in two homes Turkey. A total 76 recruited intervention (n= 37) and control (n=39). received form sessions lasting 30-45 minutes once a week for six weeks. had no application. Data were collected using socio-d...

BACKGROUND Happiness has a considerable impact on elderly quality of life. Reminiscence therapy can be an effective intervention in increasing the positive emotions among elderly. OBJECTIVES This study was performed to investigate the effect of reminiscence therapy on Iranian elderly women's happiness. PATIENTS AND METHODS This randomized clinical trial conducted on 32 elderly women (census...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a reminiscence group for Chinese older people with mild dementia at a Hong Kong nursing home. Specifi cally, participant observation indicated that such groupwork resulted in improved social, cognitive, and motor skills, and increased display of positive affect. Thus, this project provides evidence of the relevance of reminiscence groupwork ...