85 year old JUMPS at the chance of brain fitness
April 7th 2007 00:18
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Now Betty Hall has won four times out of the last five at bridge club, and she thinks the players are going to shoot her because she keeps remembering the cards people have," she laughs.
"It's much easier for me to concentrate . . . and I brag about it everywhere I go."
"For several weeks, Hall sat at a computer five days a week, matching words with different sounds ("fit" "wit" "admit"), listening for salient details in stories ("the cape was green," "the field was full of sunflowers") and practicing other brain-enhancing exercises.
"Each session is an hour, and the program becomes harder during each of its eight weeks.""Over the next few years, we will see these (brain health) programs burst into the mainstream with great force," predicts Dr. Elkonon Goldberg, a clinical professor of neurology at New York University School of Medicine and co-founder of Sharp Brains, a company that evaluates and helps markets brain-fitness programs."
Betty also walks 2 hours a day.
The article is by Judith Graham | Chicago Tribune and I have provided the link for this very informative and promising article.
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