Effects of Training Mindfulness-Based Acceptance and Commitment on Cognitive Flexibility and Resilience of the Elderly in Behshahr City

in most modern societies, the elderly are considered as heavy burdens on the shoulders of families. Rapid changes in social and cultural values have left a significant effect on the life quality of the elderly, one of which is the reduction of cognitive flexibility and their resilience. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of training mindfulness-based acceptance and commitment on Cognitive flexibility and resilience of the elderly.

the research design was a quasi-experimental with control and experimental groups in which 30 elderly people of Behshahr Welfare Complex were selected via convenience sampling and randomly allocated to two experimental and control groups. Participants in the two levels of pre-test and post-test were assessed with Dennis - Vander Wal Cognitive Flexibility Questionnaires (CFI) and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RIS).The experimental group received intervention for 8 sessions of 60-minutes each (one session a week) by the Flaxman protocol.Data were evaluated by analysis of covariance and version 20 of SPSS software.

The findings suggested that the experimental group, compared with the control group, had improved on Cognitive Flexibility and Resilience in the post-test and the improvement was visible on both variables (p

Training of Mindfulness-based commitment causes an increase in the flexibility and resilience of the elderly.