The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of life review reminiscence activities on reported depression and self-esteem. The study used a pretest-posttest experimental design in which 24 well older adults living in a retirement community were randomly assigned to experimental and comparison groups. The experimental group participated in six life review sessions, after which all subjects were readministered the Beck Depression Inventory and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Survey. An analysis of covariance indicated that life review reminiscence activities did not significantly affect depression and self-esteem. These findings imply that participation in life review activities did not negatively affect this sample of well older adults and that life review reminiscence is a worthwhile activity for this age group.

There is a paucity of information available on health literacy within the field of speech-language pathology. Suggestions are offered regarding increasing health literacy research and intervention by speech-language pathologists.

This study examined the relation of longstanding productive occupation to life satisfaction and successful aging in a sample of 292 community-dwelling older adults. The continuity and meaning dimensions of occupational engagement were used operationally to define longstanding occupation. Correlational procedures were used to collect and analyze data on longstanding occupation, successful aging, and life satisfaction. The meaning of longstanding productive occupation had a small significant correlation with life satisfaction. There were small to moderate significant correlations between longstanding productive occupation and successful aging. The study supports earlier findings that productive occupation is related to both life satisfaction and successful aging. For this sample of older adults the meaning of longstanding productive occupation significantly related to both life satisfaction and successful aging. The meaning or value of longstanding productive occupation was more related to life satisfaction than the continuity of occupation.

This qualitative study explored the effect of person-environment congruence on participation in homebased leisure activities by two legally blind older adults who lived independently in the community. The results indicated that visual impairment increased the time spent in home-based leisure activities and that the participants used various proactive behaviors to engage in these activities.

The participants' ballroom dance revealed serious leisure characteristics in conjunction with their successful aging. They loved to dance, self-identified as ballroom dancers, and orchestrated their dance activities within its social world. Future research should examine the relation of successful aging to the social world of ballroom dance.