Life Review Guide
Reflect on your life story, meaning and legacy.
1-page fillable PDF · US Letter (prints on A4) · Later Life & Dementia Care
- Approach / concern
- Later Life & Dementia Care
- Technique
- Later Life & Dementia Care
- Format
- Fillable PDF, 1 page (US Letter / A4)
- Access
- Pro and Advanced plans (3-day free trial)
- For
- Licensed clinicians to use with clients
- Updated
- November 2026
Key facts
What is Life Review Guide?
Reflect on your life story, meaning and legacy. Looking back can bring meaning, pride and peace. Go at your own pace.
When to use it
- Older adults adjusting to change
- Loneliness and life review
- Families and caregivers supporting memory changes
How to use it in session
- Explain the purpose and check that the client wants to do this.
- People and places that shaped me.
- Hard times I came through.
- What I am proud of.
- Regrets I would like to make peace with.
- What I want to pass on.
- Agree one small next step.
Clinician tips
- Adapt pace, print size and session length as needed.
- Respect autonomy and include the person in decisions.
- Attend to caregiver wellbeing as well as the person with memory changes.
Sharing with clients
Members can download the PDF to print or email, or copy a private client link from the download box. Your client opens the link and downloads the worksheet on any device. No client account is needed, and nothing your client writes is stored on TherapyAid.
References
Butler, R. N. (1963). The life review: An interpretation of reminiscence in the aged. Psychiatry, 26(1), 65-76.
This worksheet is an educational tool for use by, or under the guidance of, a licensed or registered mental-health professional. It is not a diagnostic instrument or a substitute for clinical judgement. If a client is in crisis in Canada, call or text 9-8-8 or call 9-1-1.
