Structured and Unstructured Reminiscence Training and Depression among the Elderly

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Abstract
One hundred and sixty:two depressed Caucasian elderly were treatment and control subjects for a therapeutic intervention designed to test the efficacy of structured and unstructured reminiscence training for subjects' depression. Pre-and posttreatment measures of depression, ego-strength and self-assessment ratings were obtained. Consistent with hypotheses, a multivariate analysis revealed that subjects trained in structured reminiscence showed significantly greater improvement on the dcpcndent measures than did subjects trained in unstructured reminiscence. Overall, subjects in both structured and unstructured reminiscence conditions reported more improvement than the no-treatment control subjects. Contents of subjects' reminiscence were factor-analysed for sex differences and yielded four factors with high factor loadings. Results of the factor analysis and the effects of the two forms of reminiscence training were discussed in terms of their implications for the treatment of depression in the elderly.

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