Keep Your Brain Fit By Playing Video Games

By Teddy Peterson on November 16th, 2007

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Brain fitness coach Don Veenstra of The Brain Fitness Gym visits each of the three St. Louis-area Sunrise locations every week to perform brain fitness sessions. Alzheimer’s patients at Sunrise of Clayton spent a morning last week bowling on the Nintendo Wii console. On the same day after some time, more than a few residents spent the afternoon on memory and concentration computer exercises. Matt McGaughey, activities director at Sunrise said that the facility approaches brain fitness the same way as if a resident needed physical therapy. Mr. Gaughey got an idea of introducing seniors to video game after bringing in a Play station gaming console to play Tiger Woods Golf with a patient suffering from Parkinson’s disease. McGaughey said “We wanted to find a way for technology to become integrated in the community; it serves a dual purpose, since you can introduce them to technology and, at the same time, it continues to keep them challenged.” Veenstra Said, “We try to challenge the residents to do as much as they can with success, “Part of the art of all this is assessing real quickly where someone is at.”

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