Background: The number of elderly in the world are increasing with time. The elderly have experienced many changes both physically and mentally. Various psychosocial health problems that often occur in the elderly are depression. One of the psychotherapies that can be used to treat depression is reminiscence therapy. Reminiscence therapy is a therapy to remember a pleasant experience of of children, adolescents, adults, families and an evaluation of self integrity. Objective: To analyze the effect of reminiscence therapy on depression level among elderly. Method: This research was quantitative researched with a quasi experimental two group pretest-posttest design. Sampling techniques with sampling clusters used inclusion and exclusion criteria. The number of intervention group 17 respondents and control group 15 has taken total sampling. The reminiscence therapy was carried out as many as 5 sessions every Thursday and Saturday respectively 60 minutes. The depression level was measured with a GDS (Geriatric Depression Scale). Bivariate analysis was used Wilcoxon and Mann Whitney analyses. Result: There was a difference of depression pretest scores and posttest on the intervention group with the p value 0,00 < 0,05. There was no difference in the score of depression pre test and post test in the control group with the p value 0,085 > 0,05. There was a statistically significant difference in depression level in post-test in the intervention and control groups with a p value of 0.00 <0.05. Conclusion: There was a statistically significant influence of treatment reminiscence on depression level on elderly, so therapy reminiscence can be recommended as one of psychotherapy in lowering the depression level on elderly who lives in community.