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Brain Games

Wednesday Jul 30 2008

By Shae Hadden | Bio

An overwhelming concern with mental fitness seems obvious from the plethora of "brain games" geared to ‘older’ people. This fascination with keeping our minds and our memories intact is admirable considering that we will probably need our faculties for a lot longer than any previous generation. From sudoku to crosswords, challenging video games to virtual realities, we have many options to choose from. Each offers different challenges for our key brain functions: concentration, language, memory, logic/reasoning, and visual/spatial skills. Two assumptions underlie much of the research and development in the area of online brain games for older adults:[Read More]

Written by eldering at Health

Tagged with: brain dementia game leisure video_games

Deep Age and Life's Leftovers

Thursday Nov 15 2007

I reconnected with an old friend this week online—Dr. Laurie Ford. She has just started a new blog, Chute Me Through Deep Age. It has what seems to be a fairly unique perspective on a theme I had not thought too much about, but which makes a lot of sense. She has focused on the breakdowns associated with late-life aging—specifically, any of the dozens of conditions that can either severely handicap us including everything from mobility problems and incontinence to the nasties of dementia and Alzheimer’s. Anything that requires we enter a nursing home can sideline us, as well as a wide range of potential accidents. Serene Ambition has been and continues be about transforming our cultural conversation from aging—and even late-life aging—being about loss and decline to being about possibility. This isn’t an optimistic forecast: it is a commitment.[Read More]

Written by Jim Selman at Fearless Aging
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Tagged with: aging alzheimer's deep_age dementia responsibility