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Older adults with memory loss often experience anxiety and depression as they feel their identities slip out of their own control. This paper argues that narrtive intervention can help people with dementia revise their stories and reclaim their identities as their personal histories become less accessible to them. This paper proposes an older adults intervention program based on narrative reprocessing. In order to run main program of 12 sessions, we formed a rapport with the participants as a pre-program for more than a month, and the participants understood the program contents. Narrative reprocessing consists of storytelling, mapping, reiew, and self-empowering. As a result of conducting a 12-session program for 13 older women adults with dementia, it was confirmed that individual memories increase and become more specific. Older adults intervnetion programs suggest that 1:1 programs are more effective than group programs.