Enjoy a fulfilling daily life! Recommended hobbies for seniors (summary)
Many older adults are unsure how to spend their days.
For those individuals, we’d like to introduce hobbies that can help you enjoy a fulfilling daily life.
Having hobbies can also help prevent dementia in older adults.
This article gathers hobbies that seniors can adopt according to their physical and mental conditions.
Let’s look for hobbies you can enjoy outdoors or indoors and find a sense of purpose.
If you’re a motivated senior looking to discover a new hobby, please use this article as a reference.
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Fulfilled days! Recommended hobbies for seniors (11–20)
puzzle ring
I highly recommend disentanglement puzzles as a hobby—they get your fingers moving and your brain working at full speed! Shops and online stores that carry lots of novelty items sell many puzzles organized by difficulty level.
Why not start with an easy one? As you quietly focus on it, you’ll find yourself getting hooked on the fun and wanting to level up.
scratch art
Highly recommended for those who enjoy steady, hands-on work! Let me introduce scratch art sold at 100-yen shops.
You can create authentic artwork by using the included stick to scratch sheets that have designs applied with a special finish.
There’s a wide variety of designs—constellations, animals, flowers, landscapes, and famous characters—so just choosing one is fun.
It’s enjoyable to complete the design as-is for a vibrant result, but you can also freely customize it, allowing for many different ways to enjoy it depending on the person.
Because it involves fine work with your fingertips, it can also be expected to help with hand dexterity training and brain exercises.
Give it a try!
Nansupi
Introducing “NANSPI / NUMBER SPEED,” a game that trains the brain for both kids and adults simply by pressing buttons and having fun.
There are three ways to play: a time-attack mode where you press buttons in order from the smallest number to the largest and compete for speed; a memory mode where you remember and reproduce the order and position of flashing lights; and another memory mode where you recreate the positions of shapes represented by toppled buttons.
You’ll feel a real sense of accomplishment when you press all the buttons without any mistakes.
Give it a try!
Puzzle coloring
It looks like nothing more than a complex pattern at first, but as you fill in the specified colors, an image emerges.
Each piece has a number, and by coloring according to that number, the picture gradually appears.
You can’t tell which pieces connect in the same color until you look at the numbers, so take your time coloring and enjoy the process of the mysterious pattern transforming into a picture.
Because it requires meticulous work to find the same numbers, you’re likely to feel a sense of accomplishment when it’s complete.
Rubik’s Cube
This is a classic puzzle where you twist and turn the blocks to align all six faces.
It tests your ability to visualize how each square will move and where it will end up.
Relying on intuition alone makes completing all six faces difficult, so learning specific algorithms is important—starting by solving just one face is recommended.
As you get better at moving the blocks to the positions you intend, you’ll also start to feel yourself getting closer to completing all six faces.
Self hand care
Hand care is indispensable during dry seasons, and being mindful of it helps maintain beautiful skin.
This approach encourages performing hand care by actively moving your hands, adding the benefits of hand exercises as well.
With the image of thoroughly working hand cream or oil into your hands, proceed while also focusing on massage.
Using a hot towel to add warmth to the massage can also be expected to promote blood circulation.
Fulfill Your Days! Recommended Hobbies for Seniors (21–30)
Pastel art
Let’s use soft pastel tones to complete a beautiful picture.
By skillfully using templates and layering shapes, you can create distinctive gradients—the most striking feature of pastel art.
Since the main process involves rubbing with your fingers, it requires few tools and also serves as a bit of finger exercise.
Even if you’re not confident in drawing, you can easily create art just by layering shapes and colors.
Because the steps are so simple, this makes for a recreation activity that many people can enjoy.