Brain Games for Senior Care: What is Neurobics?

Brain Games for Senior Care: What is Neurobics?

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Your morning exercise program helps residents gain strength and weekly yoga classes help them increase their range of motion. But do you have a brain exercise program in place? Brain exercises are just as important as physical exercise for our residents. Learn a bit more about neurobics and why these interventions are key to keeping brains fit!

Your morning exercise program helps residents gain strength and weekly yoga classes help them increase their range of motion. But do you have a brain exercise program in place?

Brain exercises are just as important as physical exercise for our residents. Learn a bit more about neurobics and why these interventions are key to keeping brains fit!

In this article we cover:

  • What Are Neurobic Brain Exercises?
  • How It’s Different Than Trivia
  • Breaking Routine
  • New Learning
  • Sensory Stimulation
  • Working All the Brain

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Gwyneth 19th Jun 2020 Volunteer
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
Pam 12th Jun 2020 Activity Director
I like this about Neurobics. Thank You.
Talita 15th Jun 2020
Thanks for your feedback Pam!
Shantel 11th Jun 2020 Activity Coordinator
So many great "out of the ordinary" ideas here! I think my group will love some of these.
Talita 15th Jun 2020
Thanks so much for your feedback Shantel!
Susan 16th Aug 2019 Activity Director
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
Jane 15th Aug 2019 Activity Director
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.
Susan 13th Aug 2019 Activity Director
I am all for Neurobics
May have to adapt and modify them to meet the needs of the group you are working with
Haley 11th Aug 2019 Recreation Therapist And Writer
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