Effectiveness of mindfulness meditation on depression among senior citizens in a selected old age home at Coimbatore

A study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of mindful meditation on depression among Senior Citizens in Vasavi Muthiyor Illam at Coimbatore. Objectives:(a) To assess the level of depression before and after meditation among senior citizen.(b)To determine the effectiveness of meditation on depression among senior citizen.(c)To find out the association between post test depression level with their selected demographic variables.Methodology: The study was conducted by adopting quasi experimental one group pre test-post test design. 62 senior citizens were selected by using purposive sampling technique. Mindful meditation was given to 62 senior citizens for 22 days. Results:The present study showed that the‘t’ value was significant at 0.05 level. Among the samples the mean post test score of depression(9.323) was less than that of the mean pretest score of depression(18.6452). The difference between the pre test and post test mean score was significant at 0.05 levels.Conclusion:The study revealed that the depression level had reduced after mindful meditation