Loneliness, regret, fear and depression are all too common in today’s society, in fact, a recent survey has shown 10–15 per cent of older Australian adults experience anxiety or depression, but new research from Swinburne University has what they believe is a pathway to alleviating mental suffering in the elderly.
Lead author Dr John Fallon says effective life review therapy or dignity therapy could help protect older adults from advancing to mental illness. So what is dignity therapy and how might it help inspire the lives of older adults
Click on today’s podcast as we join Dr John Fallon to explore this this exciting groundbreaking research and its findings.
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I’d love to know what the questions are that Dr John Fallon formulated to ask terminally ill people that helped them to be less anxious and/or depressed and more at peace with their impending death.