group life review and denial of death in order to assess the utility of structured reminiscing with the elderly a series of five life review workshops lrw were offered sixtythree seniors participated in the treatment or notreatment conditions and were administered four attitude measures pre and posttreatment workshop participants also filled out a workshop evaluation form analyses showed that the treatment group significantly decreased in denial of death t 266 p less than 01 while the control group did not there were also moderate but significant correlations between age education religiosity and health measures and the perceived benefit accrued from the workshop the amount of reminiscing which participants reported after completing the workshop and the number of functions which reminiscing served for lrw members