Introduction: Successful ageing is reflected in the ability of older people to adapt to physical, social and emotional losses and to achieve contentment, security and life satisfaction. Because changes in life patterns are inevitable over a life time, older people need resiliency and coping skills when confronting depressive symptoms and change. Need for the study: Failure to adaptations of the ageing which can leads to frustration, loneliness, bitterness, and insecurity which makes older people prone for later life depression. The demand for curing depression is on the rise globally. Affirmation therapy helps to relax and get healed up from depressive symptoms especially for elderly people. Aim: To investigateself-affirmation on depressive symptoms in elderly people Tool: Geriatric Depression Scale. Study setting: kalaiselvikarunalaya old age home at west mogapair. Data collection procedure: affirmation sentences were played through compact disc attached with speakers twice a day for four weeks. Data analysis: Demographic variables and clinical variables were analyzed with descriptive statistics (percentage, mean, standard deviation) and correlated the levels of depressive scores with demographic variables by inferential statistics (paired‘t’ test and chi square) Study Results: The study shows the pretest score were 16.72 with standard deviation of ± 3.88. The posttests score were8.30 with standard deviation of ±2.16. This study revealed that affirmation therapy as effective and healed the depressive symptoms among the elderly people. So the differences are large and it showed statistically significant difference (P ≤ 0.001) in paired test. Discussion: Depression being one of the causes of a variety of diseases and disorders in the world today, especially in elderly population, through this study it was proven that affirmation therapy reduces the level of depressive symptoms among elderly suffering from Depression. Therefore it is suggested that affirmation therapy can be done in all types of groups in long term basis as well for reducing depression. Hence the objectives have been achieved and hypothesis is proved. Conclusion: There is effectiveness in affirmation therapy on depressive symptoms among elderly people. Since it is cost effective it can be practiced in home settings. So the investigator conducted a study to assess the effectiveness of affirmation therapy on depressive symptoms among elderly people in selected geriatric home at Chennai.