Elderly Parents Brain Exercises - Mind Exercise Games for Seniors
The brain is a complex organ that, like other muscles in the body, elderly parents need to keep stimulated by exercising the brain with games and crafts in order to enhance the growth and development of new nerve cells and neural function. Exercising the brain helps:
Okay, so who doesn't want to increase brain function, regardless of age? Exercising the brain or mind can be achieved in a number of ways, including but not limited to:
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The best way to keep the brain active in elderly parents is to stimulate and exercise it. Use it! This can be achieved in a number of ways. Caregivers who provide daily care for elderly parents can help to keep things active and stimulated by providing access to a large number of elderly activities that help the brain grow and maintain brain cells.
Studies have shown that many seniors in their 60s, 70s, and 80s have the memory capacity of a 30 year old. While in many cases brain health is related to genetics and family histories, there are ways in which caregivers and elders may work to enhance cognitive skills in those within their care.
Many people believe that the brain starts to die at a certain age, which leads to forgetfulness, dementia and even Alzheimer's disease. However, individuals should be aware that neurogenesis (creation and growth of new brain cells) may also occur (and does) at any age.
Games that stimulate and use new areas of the brain are the best for enhancing and developing the memory, learning ability and versatility. The following suggestions are just a few of the types of activities that seniors may engage in to help keep the brain stimulated and functioning at high levels of performance.
Caregivers need to encourage elderly parents to try new things that continually challenge and exercise their brain to function. Keeping a parent mentally or physically stimulated doesn't mean keeping them moving from dawn to dusk. It merely means offering them some mental stimulation or elder activity on a daily basis.
To have your seniors play memory games and brain teasers to improve their memory.
The brain, like any other part of the human body, needs exercise. That old saying, "Use it or lose it" is very true, and goes for brain exercise as much as it does for any other body part.
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