The purpose of the present research was determining effects of 8 weeks (8 sessions) group reminiscence on the cognitive abilities of mild cognitive impaired elders.
Methodology: Seventy-two 60-84 years old mild cognitive impaired elderly people (48 females and 24 males) were purposefully chosen, in access, as the subjects, and were randomly divided to three teams of the group reminiscence team, the group intervention team (first evidence) and the without intervention one (second evidence), in equal proportion. Before and after the interventions, the mini–mental state examination (MMSE) was performed on the subjects. The reminiscence team participated in 8 group reminiscence sessions (1 weekly 90 min session). Meetings of the first evidence team were similar to the reminiscence one, except the subjects of the intervention team were only talking together, as a group, without any reminiscence. The second evidence team didn’t receive any intervention. In order to investigate and compare changes of variables, independent one-way analysis of variance, Kruskal-Wallis, T-paired and K-squared tests were used.
Results: The cognitive abilities in the two teams of group intervention and reminiscence increased significantly (P<0.05), but there wasn’t observed any significant difference among the without intervention group (P>0.05). The increment in the group reminiscence team was significantly further than the two other groups, and also the increase in the group intervention team was more than that of the without intervention (P<0.05).