Breakfast for your Brain!
January 19th 2009 21:28
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From: HTR news.com
Breakfast for Your Brain participants meet for an hour twice each week for 10 weeks. They do a variety of mental activities, ranging from music and art to math, optical illusions and memory building.
Wilker says the program is popular because of its "run-and-go" format.
"There is no prep time; it's all there," she said. "There is no staff training time, and in this era of shrinking budgets, that's important. Also, few senior centers have their own computer labs, and this doesn't require one."
Breakfast for Your Brain also fosters group interaction and socialization.
"That is so important to seniors," Wilker said.
Breakfast for Your Brain has drawn praise from Beverly Bartlett, outreach specialist for the Alzheimer's Association of Greater Wisconsin; and from aging specialist Marge Engelman, author of "Aerobics of the Mind" and "Whole Brain Workouts."
Wilker says the program is popular because of its "run-and-go" format.
"There is no prep time; it's all there," she said. "There is no staff training time, and in this era of shrinking budgets, that's important. Also, few senior centers have their own computer labs, and this doesn't require one."
Breakfast for Your Brain also fosters group interaction and socialization.
"That is so important to seniors," Wilker said.
Breakfast for Your Brain has drawn praise from Beverly Bartlett, outreach specialist for the Alzheimer's Association of Greater Wisconsin; and from aging specialist Marge Engelman, author of "Aerobics of the Mind" and "Whole Brain Workouts."
What a pity there are not some illustrations here, but the key messages do come across.
These are:
Mental activities
Music
Art
Maths
computers
Socializing
optical illusions
Memory training
Group interaction
Anyone over 20 should start looking after their brain now, the younger ones are mostly doing just that at school and college.
But, how about you, what you normally do is most times just simply not enough.
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