For the Rich and IN- famous
December 30th 2009 11:52
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Got a spare $2,299.00. Don't worry, there is also a $19.95 per month subscription fee.
But this spring, Dakim is launching new software for your home computer. That program will be $495.00.
And will there also be a monthly subscription fee then, too?
Either you brain is a total mess ( and that's possible ) or else you want a super duper one.
As for me I'll stick with my Lumosity, it's cheaper, by far, and you can always skip the hard bits if you get clever.
But back to the little Dakim offering, I wonder who their customers will be.
By Renee Tessman
From: Kare
Exercising the brain to ward off dementia
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- There's a unique program being used in the Twin Cities that's helping fight the loss of brain function associated with aging. Some hope it will prevent them from getting Alzheimer's.
As 73-year-old Larry Wood sits in a chair at Friendship Village of Bloomington, he's exercising his brain.
In front of him is a touch screen monitor for a program called the Dakim Brain Fitness system.
Wood says, "I think it's very challenging."
Karen Lloyd, Director of Wellness Programs for Friendship Village of Bloomington says, "This program will test six different cognitive domains in the brain and you don't know it by playing the games."
Lloyd says it took her three years to choose a system for the senior community that she thought would be a good fit for residents.
She wanted a program to help improve brain function because studies show seniors who participate in cognitive activity can reduce their risk of dementia by 35 to 63 percent.
Friendship Village has had the Dakim system for about two months now. Wood uses it because it's fun and because, "I would like not to get Alzheimers in my older age."
The touch screen appeals to those who may be intimidated by a computer mouse and keyboard.
The Dakim system was designed by a man whose father had dementia.
It exercises the brain by using word scrambles, puzzles, memory games and familiar film clips and music from the past.
Wood says, "It's fun for me because I was a musician."
The 20 minute sessions adjust to a person's skill level and update every day.
Lloyd describes how it helps improve brain function. She says, "If you think of the brain as being roads, you've got freeways. And if you get the freeway clogged up, you have to take alternative routes. This machine helps build those alternative routes, so let's say somebody has a stroke, they already have some side roads."
Scores on the Dakim system can be hidden. In fact, Lloyd says getting the answers right really doesn't matter. What matters is the thinking that someone is doing. That's what exercises the brain.
While it's still too early to tell, Wood says he sees improvement in his brain function. He says, "I've always been a terrible puzzle guy but I do find out I'm getting a little better at figuring out the puzzles."
And he says he did so well on the math questions that he doesn't really get asked math questions anymore.
Wood says his friends like this one person brain fitness class as well. He says, "The people that I've talked to find it's very helpful and they enjoy it."
There is a home version of the touch screen system that sells for $2,299.00. With that, there is also a $19.95 per month subscription fee.
But this spring, Dakim is launching new software for your home computer. That program will be $495.00.
No worries, cost is not any problem. Oh, yeah?
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