Investigating the happiness promotion Strategies in Iranian older adults: a review article

According to increasing in elderly population and life expectancy, mental health promotion and wellbeing in the elderly is very important. Happiness is a component of mental health that affects on bio-psycho-socio-moral health, and can improve elderly' quality of life. It is necessary to plan and implementation effective programs for elderly' health promotion as a vulnerable group, so this study was done to review interventions in the field of elderly happiness, types of interventions and their impact in ten years ago in IRAN.

In this narrative review study, Persian and English published articles between 2009-2019 were searched by Persian and English key words: happiness، Elderly، Older adult، Old، Aged and Iran in Magiran، SID، Science Direct، Ovid و PubMed data base. Inclusion criteria for selecting papers were: time and place of research, relevance to the aim of research, having a framework for research, full text and the language (Persian or English) of articles. The quality of the papers was assessed based on a quantitative review checklist.

28 papers were reviewed. The findings of these article showed that Interventions that promote elderly' happiness are classified into four groups: physical (7 papers), psychological (15papers), artistic (4 papers), and health-promoting activities (2papers).

This study was showed that numerous interventions have been done in Iran to increase elderly's happiness, and effectiveness of these interventions have been proved. Health planning in the field of elderly's health promotion focused on the happiness is necessary for this group.