Material: The present study is a randomized controlled experimental study that was performed on 71 elderly people admitted to the internal ward (34 in the experimental group and 37 in the control group) in Mostafa Khomeini Hospital in Tehran from June to October 2020. Research tools were Abbreviated Mental Test and Hospice Comfort Questionnaire. In the experimental group, Benson relaxation was performed for 4 sessions and each session lasted for 10 minutes. In the control group, a routine intervention was performed. Chi-square, Fisher's exact test, independent t-test and paired t-test were used to analyze the data in SPSS software version 16.