brain fitness - do more than play simple games

Constance Gustke had written an article for the New York Times blog, “for effective brain fitness, do more than play simple games.”

Rec Therapists might want to read this article. Go here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/your-money/for-effective-brain-fitness-do-more-than-play-simple-games.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Geri Olympics Tam pictures

From Dr. Ted Muilenburg (who is one of my former professors)

2015 Geri Olympics Team

Pictures are on our INSTITUTE FOR GERI OLYMPICS face book page-please take a look-

We had 290 resident athletes competing from 30 care homes!

Click on the following link-it's a very short trailer about this years Geri Olympics done by Dawn Skelton

This is a Geri Olympics trailer for Geri Olympics 2015 developed by Dawn

Thanks for your work 290 residents care home residents have a better quality of life and are more active and are not forgotten due to your

Please watch

Zip line for elderly

Zip-line for the elderly

Rec. Therapy in the news!

The residents at Grace Ridge went on a zip line adventure!

Read about it here:

http://www.morganton.com/community/grace-ridge-takes-residents-on-zip-line-adventure/article_0529fae4-fa7f-11e4-99ef-877a3043e10a.html

Playground for seniors

Check out this article on playgrounds for seniors that are popping up:

http://www.governing.com/generations/government-management/gov-senior-playgrounds-popping-up.html

Making art prevents cognitive decline.

Making art has been found by a resevarch-study by the Mayo Clinic to help prevent cognitive decline.

I thought this would be beneficial knowledge to recreational therapists because RTs provide a lot of activity-based treatment interventions (like making art) and many RTs provide services for seniors.

Art could be: painting, drawing, and sculpting (to name a few).

Making art is good for building new pathways in the brain.

Read the article here:

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/making-art-tied-to-fewer-cognitive-problems-in-old-age

I recommend my own book on creativity, called, ART SOUP. Check it out on amazon here: