Elderly counseling offers mental health assistance to older adults during the difficult stages of advanced aging and loss of independence. Elderly counselors help older clients with common problems and seek to make their lives more manageable and comfortable. The counseling issues come under elderly counseling as follows:

• Adjusting to decreasing physical strength and health

• Adjustment to retirement and reduced income

• Adjusting to the death of a life partner or spouse

• Establishing an explicit association with one’s age group

• Adopting and adapting societal roles in a flexible way

• Establishing satisfactory practical living arrangement

Benefits of elderly counseling

• Boost self-confidence and self-esteem

• Create a vision for future

• Motivate them to make positive changes

• Learn to accept a new health diagnosis

• Address unresolved issues from the past

• Learn how to comfortably ask for help

Activities Which are Part of Elderly Counseling

• Be active and participate in various activities

• Accept reality

• Accept changing social norms

• Spend leisure time properly

• Proper thinking of the Past, present, and future events

• Take care of health (physical, mental, social, and Spiritual).

• Do proper physical exercise and yoga

• Keep busy yourself with work (productive, unproductive)

• Help others

• Spend your time in social and spiritual activities

• Spend your time with relatives

• Join with various group