“Effectiveness of Reminiscence Therapy on Self-Esteem, Life Satisfaction and Socialization among Elderly Residing in Old Age Home: A Randomized Controlled Trial”

Abstract

The Present era is increasing number of elderly people population in developed as well as developing countries is found new health care thread in current situation. As we know that population around the world rapidly  increase and this leading factors surely accompanied in older age with the risk  of physical and psychological disorders.

The present study title: “Effectiveness of Reminiscence therapy on self-esteem, life satisfaction and socialization among elderly residing in old age home: A Randomized controlled trial.” The comparison of senior individuals in the experimental and control groups' levels of self-worth, life satisfaction, & socialisation before and after the intervention is the main objective. In the experimental and control groups, before and after globalisation, compare the elderly's levels of self-worth, life satisfaction, and socialisation. To ascertain the effects of recollection therapy on the degree of self-esteem, life contentment, and socialisation of older participants as well as the associations between pre-intervention self-esteem, life contentment, and socialisation levels and particular demographic factors.

Methods and Material : Researcher adopted A randomized controlled  trial. It was carried out on 112 samples. Simple Random sampling method  was used. Data analysis was done mainly using descriptive statistics.

Result: Result showed that  control group 56(100%) elderly shown low self-esteem and in experimental group majority of elderly 34 (60.71%) have shown normal self-esteem and 22 (39.29%) shown high self-esteem.majority of elderly 20 (35.71%) found extremely dissatisfied and 15 (29.79%) were neutral in control group. In experimental group majority of elderly 44 (78.57%) found satisfied.

Recommendation: Similar  study may be conducted larger population.