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Old age is a period when people need physical, emotional, and psychological support. Depression is a major mental health problem, which is yet to be recognized as an important public health challenge. About 322 million people affected with depression worldwide. Depression is the single largest contributor to global disability (7.5%, 2015) and a major contributor to suicides (800,000 annually. The study was conducted in Ashra old age of Bhopal. The population comprised of all elderly people both male and female who are residing in old age home and having sign of symptoms of depression. The study findings concludes that the, pretest mean depression score was 18.64 and with a standard deviation of 3.41 and in posttest mean depression score was 9.32 with a standard deviation of 2.67. This proves that Mindfulness Therapy was effective in reducing depression level of elderly people. Mindfulness meditation is a nurse-initiated intervention that has the advantages of being cost-effective, therapeutic, social and recreational for the institutionalized older adult. As a communicative psychosocial process, Mindfulness meditation has proven to be a valuable intervention for the depressed elderly client