Abstract

Refer back past (Life Review Therapy) representing

normal proces relate to aproach to death proces.
Succesfull reintegrasi can give meaning in life and draw
up people for death, without accompanied to worry and
have cold feet. Result of discussion of last about this
process, please find that refer back previous life
reperesent one of the stategy in overcoming the problem
of soul of lansia.
Troug experience recollec last life, symtom wich now
gradually lose feeling or circumstatial balmy peace and
also will emerge. Sometime memory which emerge to relate
to trauma a eriod of chhild or situation of stres in
womb. However it is problem of faced by at run life to be
overcome with this method.
This research design is Quasi Eksperiment with
appach of One Group Pre-Test, Post-test. Its of him is
all natural old of dementia residing in Panti Social
Tresna Werdha Puspakarma Mataram, technicsly intake of
sample use totally of sampling with amount of responder 6
people .Technics of data collecting the use is to use
wawancara, documentation and observaion with statistical
test use test of t-test.
Result of this research is got that before given by
life review therapy got by 5 responder people of cognate
troubel of weight and 1 who experience of cognate
troubel. Ing after given by life review therpy happened
change wich is signifikan , where there are 4 responder
people with cognate damage category is people with light
cognate damage category and 1 people with cognate demage
category of weight, with result of test Of t-test is 3,91
with meaning stoery level 0,05 wich consulted with d.b=5
got by result 0,57.
This research, can be concluded that after applying
Life Review Therapy tere are some progression in the
level of old adults cognate dementia. Therefere, life
review therapy need to be applied recursivelly to help
old adult patient with dementia.
Key word : life review therapy, level cognate,
dementia and old adults