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Mindfulness in Older Adults: Effects of Mindfulness Programmes
on Mental Health and Successful Ageing
Mindfulness is becoming a widely used approach to improving psychological
well-being. It involvesdeveloping the ability to purposefully direct attention to
the experience of the present moment without reacting to or interpreting that
experience. It is thus an adaptive psychological process to achieve emotional
self-regulation and reduce stress. In recent decades, the study of the potential
of mindfulness-based interventions to support successful ageing has gained
interest. Older adults experience certain types of stress, loneliness, loss, grief,
decline in body functions and other health problems more frequently than
others. Previous research, as well as the evaluation of NARA mindfulness pro-
grammes that we present in this chapter, conducted with the aim of reviewing
the impact of such interventions on the psychological well-being and mental
health of older adults in Slovenia, shows that the practise of mindfulness offers
significant positive changes in mental health and psychological well-being, as
well as many benefits for the physical health of older adults.
Keywords: mindfulness, older adults, mental health, mindfulness-based cogni-
tive therapy (MBCT), mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)

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