Nurses and Promotion to Reminiscence in Older Adults

Authors

  • ญานิศา ดวงเดือน Srisararindhira Thai Red Cross Institute of Nursing

Keywords:

Nurses and promotion, Reminiscence, Older Adults

Abstract

When the age increase will changes in physical, mental, and health. Therefore, it is important that nurse have to prepare to care for the older adults in all dimension. In particular, the mental illness has increased when entering the older. Psychosocial therapy is an alternative care to help improve the mental health of the older adults and help to reduce the negative feelings. Psychosocial therapy is activity to care, related to older person in psychology and society. There are many types depending on the objectives and expected results. In this article talk about the reminiscence, that the one type of psychosocial therapy in the older adults. The nature of older adults will forget the new events that just happened, while able to remember the past story. Thinking about the past is one of the behaviors of the older adults. It’s consistent with the experience and appropriate for use in the older adults. This article aims to present about reminiscence, classification of reminiscence, mechanism of reminiscence, selection of form of reminiscence, Bringing the reminiscence to achieve the expected results, the role of nurses to step of reminiscence, nurses and promotions to reminiscence in older adults and case study.

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21-08-2019

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ดวงเดือน ญ. Nurses and Promotion to Reminiscence in Older Adults. J Royal Thai Army Nurses [Internet]. 2019 Aug. 21 [cited 2024 Mar. 29];20(2):17-25. Available from: https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JRTAN/article/view/210349

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