Value for Older People
Reminiscence work promotes:
- Encourages sociability and opens up new relationships
- Confirms personal identity and encourages feelings of self worth
- Assists the process of life review
- Changes the nature of caring relationships
- Aids assessment of present functioning and informs managed care plans
- Helps to transmit knowledge, values and wisdom and to bear witness
- Accessability and enjoyment
- Social inclusion
- A sense of coherence and continuity
- The preservation and promotion of social and communication skills
- Meaningful recreational activity
- Helps integrate older people into new settings, ie sheltered housing , nursing, homes or retirement villages
(Faith Gibson 2004)