Abstract
Background: High blood pressure is a common and dangerous condition. Having high blood pressure means the pressure of the blood in your blood vessels is higher. Many antihypertensive medications and lifestyle changes have proven to reduce blood pressure. Over the past few decades, numerous additional modalities have been evaluated in regard to their potential blood pressure-lowering abilities. However, this non-dietary, non-drug treatments, collectively called alternative approaches has generally undergone less and less rigorous trials.
Methods and materials: The study was conducted on hypertensive geriatric group, at old-age home in India (Pune city) with equal distribution of both genders by taking 30 each sample in both experimental and control groups using non-probability convenient sampling technique. Blood pressure of both experimental and control groups were measured before and after the intervention. Data were collected, tabulated and analyzed in terms of the objectives of the study using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results: Majority of respondents in experimental and control group belongs to the age group of 71-75, which accounts for about 46.67 and 43.33% respectively. In pre-test findings, maximum percentage of the respondents in experimental (83.33%) and control (56.67%) were having stage-I hypertension.
On the other hand, in post-test findings, 76.33% of subjects in the experimental group had normal blood pressure, 6.67% had stage-I hypertension and in the control group, 10% of them had pre hypertension, 70% of them had stage - I hypertension and 20% of them had stage - II hypertension. Considering the impact of guided imagery therapy on blood pressure the mean scores of experimental and control group is 50.53 and 60.93, the difference in mean scores is 10.4, thus it indicates that guided imagery therapy reduces blood pressure in hypertensive geriatric clients.
Conclusion: The study concluded that guided imagery therapy reduces blood pressure in hypertensive geriatric group.

Key words: impact, guided imagery therapy, hypertension, blood pressure, geriatrics, old age home