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With a rapidly aging society it becomes increasingly important to counter normal age‐related decline in cognitive functioning. Growing evidence suggests that cognitive training programs may have the potential to counteract this decline. On the basis of a growing body of research that shows that meditation has positive effects on cognition in younger and middle‐aged adults, meditation may be able to offset normal age‐related cognitive decline or even enhance cognitive function in older adults. In this paper, we review studies investigating the effects of meditation on age‐related cognitive decline. We searched the Web of Science (1900 to present), PsycINFO (1597 to present), MEDLINE (1950 to present), and CABI (1910 to present) to identify original studies investigating the effects of meditation on cognition and cognitive decline in the context of aging. Twelve studies were included in the review, six of which were …