- Stay curious and involved
- Commit to life-long learning
- Read, write, work crossword or other puzzles
- Attend lectures and plays
- Enroll in courses at your local adult education center, community college or other community group
- Play games
- Garden
- Try memory exercises
Monday, January 22, 2007
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Does anyone have any new ideas for a good activity that challenges the mind?
Hi all--and thank you for providing this resource.
Pertaining to "new ideas for mental stimulation," I'm afraid I don't have much innovation to offer. But we do have much success applying old ideas in fresh context. For instance, we like to provide multi-dimensional activities, which seem to have possibly a synergistic effect overall: we'll gather as many folks as possible for a popular physical activity such as "hoverball" (large helium-filled balloon ball), then play live music, and engage residents with trivia, storytelling, conversation, etc., simultaneously. Through stimulating our residents in multiple ways at once, we often see residents performing or participating at their optimal level and for sustained intervals. To a great degree, we see results commensurate with the degree of energy or motivation we, as facilitators, invest. With the topic in mind, then, one technique may be to continually challenge ourselves, as facilitators, mentally; to strive for mental alertness, acuity and spontaneity ourselves as we implement even the oldest forms and mundane activities from our repertoire, thereby creating optimal opportunity for eliciting similar responsiveness from our residents.
Randal at Hillside Healthcare, Missoula, MT
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