Reminisce Therapy In Older Adults

With a continuously growing older adult population, there is an even higher demand for assistance from the social work field. Older adults experience multiple issues in life in many areas such as financial, role change, physical health, and mental health. There is a high need to address these experienced issues properly. Depression is one of the most common mental health issues that affect older adults in later life (BD, Pearson, Schneider, & et, 1997). Older adults are also least likely to obtain treatment for mental health issues, depression more specifically. Older adults who refuse to seek treatment will begin to suffer in other portions of their life. Untreated depression is linked to suicidal thoughts, suicide, and decrease in health …show more content…
Within in this paper an older adult will be identified as anyone above the age of 60 (JM, et al., 1997).For the purpose of this paper depression will be defined as a mood disorder, with continual sadness and failure to maintain previous interest. Interfering with an individual’s ability to complete daily tasks (NIMH).This paper will examine the effects of Reminisce Therapy on older adults to reduce the symptoms of: long-term feelings of sadness and anxiety, hopelessness, change in eating habits, loss of interest in once enjoyable hobbies, sleep changes, and suicidal thoughts (NIMH). Like any mental health issue, each case of depression is unique to the individual. Not everyone will experience the same time frame, degree, or exact symptom the same way. Like older adults there are multiple health issues occurring at once. An older adult experiencing physical health issues co-occurring with depression can and often will have magnified symptoms (NIMH). Depression does not affect men and women equally. Depression affects females two times more than it does males. However both are significantly affected (Alexopoulos, 2005).The scope of this paper will focus on older adults affected