Brain Games for Senior Care: What is Neurobics?

Re Neurobics?

I have an exercise which causes laughter and amazement - none of us knows why it happens, perhaps someone can explain it if it happens to them. Here is the exercise:

Sit down, turn your right ankle round and round to the right and at the same time make a figure 6 in the air. I won't spoil it by telling you what happens when trying it on the clients in our day care centre, elderly, and on famliy and friends. Thank you Gwyneth

I like this about Neurobics. Thank You.

So many great "out of the ordinary" ideas here! I think my group will love some of these.

Thank you Jane for that suggestion

It is a really good idea and can be made easy or hard depending on the group you are doing it with

Here's a popular seated Neurobics I do which I call Tap-Claps. Everyone is facing me so they can see the rhythm I tap out with my hands on my lap / clap. Eg. Tap, tap, clap; tap, tap, clap. Residents imitate what I'm doing. Repeat a few times, then change it up. Eg. Tap,tap,tap,tap,clap,clap. I speak out what we're doing as we're doing it.

I am all for Neurobics

May have to adapt and modify them to meet the needs of the group you are working with

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