Tag: therapeutic

Keep Dancing!!
Posted on April 28, 2011
dementia care engagement evidence based therapeutic
Want to avoid your risk of dementia holistically? Besides controlling your weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugars and decreasing your intake of inflammatory foods, what else can you do? Start dancing! Dancing has been shown to have numerous health benefits in various studies. The most obvious are increased socialization and improved physical functioning. Two recent […]

Music frees of fall???
Posted on November 18, 2010
evidence based therapeutic
There are numerous positive effect of music. From helping premature baby develop quicker to soothing and calming older adults, listening to music has always been an helpful tool and relaxing activity.Retirement communities are no exception, music and musical activities have found their place and are often used to enhance life of residents. but music programming […]

Teaching and learning – essential parts of retirement
Posted on September 6, 2010
dementia care engagement evidence based therapeutic
What’s great about teaching is that it’s fun, easy to implement and can actually keep you brain healthy. Latest research show that tutoring amongst seniors might dramatically improve their well being:“Ideally, we’d like to see if this mentoring program reduces the risk for dementia and other costly diseases,” said Michelle Carlson, lead researcher of the […]

As we age – 4 steps to keeping your brain active
Posted on July 19, 2010
engagement therapeutic
Losing our mental capacity as we age is something that most people dread. It is possible to keep your brain active and maintain a good quality of life throughout the aging process. Food, nutrition, physical and social activities all play a role in keeping our brains active. Brain games and activities will keep our brain […]

Essentials about seniors and exercise
Posted on April 26, 2010
engagement therapeutic
For most people, exercise is not a senior thing; not many people picture grandma on a treadmill, a 97 year old doing Tai Chi or a retirement community doing hula hoop competitions In some way, it is true that aging includes changes that affect performance such as: Strength: Older adults often see loss of muscle, […]

Born with music inside me
Posted on November 17, 2009
engagement therapeutic
Legendary R&B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was “born with music inside me”. The famous neurologist Oliver Sacks actually believes in this and wrote a book on the topic: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. This book examines the extreme effects of music on the human brain and how lives can be utterly […]

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