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Your morning exercise program helps residents gain strength and weekly yoga classes help them increase their range of motion. But do you have a brain exercise program in place?
Brain exercises are just as important as physical exercise for our residents. Learn a bit more about neurobics and why these interventions are key to keeping brains fit!
In this article we cover:
- What Are Neurobic Brain Exercises?
- How It’s Different Than Trivia
- Breaking Routine
- New Learning
- Sensory Stimulation
- Working All the Brain
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Re Neurobics?
I have an exercise which causes laughter and amazement - none of us knows why it happens, perhaps someone can explain it if it happens to them. Here is the exercise:
Sit down, turn your right ankle round and round to the right and at the same time make a figure 6 in the air. I won't spoil it by telling you what happens when trying it on the clients in our day care centre, elderly, and on famliy and friends. Thank you Gwyneth
I like this about Neurobics. Thank You.
Thanks for your feedback Pam!
So many great "out of the ordinary" ideas here! I think my group will love some of these.
Thanks so much for your feedback Shantel!
Thank you Jane for that suggestion
It is a really good idea and can be made easy or hard depending on the group you are doing it with
Here's a popular seated Neurobics I do which I call Tap-Claps. Everyone is facing me so they can see the rhythm I tap out with my hands on my lap / clap. Eg. Tap, tap, clap; tap, tap, clap. Residents imitate what I'm doing. Repeat a few times, then change it up. Eg. Tap,tap,tap,tap,clap,clap. I speak out what we're doing as we're doing it.
I am all for Neurobics
May have to adapt and modify them to meet the needs of the group you are working with
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