Let's boost your creativity: Recommended brain training for seniors!
Brain-teaser quizzes are one type of activity that can train quick thinking in older adults.
Thinking in your head and answering right away also helps stimulate seniors’ brains.
They’re perfect for activity time at senior facilities and day services.
They can improve communication among older adults and are also appealing because participants gain various kinds of knowledge.
For staff, offering hints that guide participants to the answer is important, but please also focus on creating an atmosphere where everyone can have fun together.
I hope this helps anyone who’s unsure about how to run quiz activities.
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Let's Boost Your Inspiration: Recommended Brain Training for Seniors! (21–30)
Kanji hunt: Let’s find the character ‘士’
Let’s find four instances of the character 士 among regularly arranged 土 characters.
Checking each character one by one helps train concentration, but it’s also important to take a bird’s-eye view of the whole.
As the title suggests, this is an exercise for your eyes and brain, so shake off fixed ideas and keep a flexible mindset.
There are many ways to enjoy it: do it individually or compete in teams to see who can find them the fastest.
It’s also recommended as a recreation activity in senior care facilities, so give it a try!
A puzzle where you fit counters (ohajiki) into a frame
Group recreation where everyone gets lively together is fun, but taking time to think carefully and enjoy things at your own pace is important too.
This time, we’re introducing a finger dexterity puzzle using ohajiki (small glass game pieces).
Preparation is very simple: get some paper and ohajiki.
Draw circles on the paper about the same size as the ohajiki, and place the pieces around them.
Using your index finger, try to push the ohajiki into the circles.
You can change how it feels a lot by drawing circles slightly larger or smaller than the ohajiki and making a rule that they only count if they fit exactly, or by trying fingers other than the index finger.
Because it also engages spatial awareness, it serves as brain training.
It’s also recommended as a recreation activity in senior care facilities.
Space Rail
A build-it-yourself coaster where a steel ball rolls along two rails—that’s Space Rail.
Watching the ball make complex movements and speed through the course is truly exciting.
The difficulty varies by scale, but a simple set can be assembled in about an hour.
Since you work with your fingers while imagining the finished result, it can help develop creativity and concentration.
The sense of accomplishment when you complete it is exceptional.
Give it a try!
Puzzle Blocks
We’d like to introduce a 3D puzzle game where you cleverly combine blocks of different shapes to complete a form.
Within a limited frame, flipping, inverting, and repositioning the blocks through trial and error not only stimulates thinking, but the warm feel of the wood and the act of moving the pieces with your hands provide positive stimulation for the brain.
You can enjoy it on your own at a relaxed pace, or play with others and compete for time—there are plenty of ways to have fun.
Give it a try!
Which number is the most ___?
Are you familiar with working memory? Working memory is the ability to temporarily store and process information needed for tasks and actions.
It’s said to be involved in judgments and behaviors in all aspects of daily life.
Let’s train our working memory by searching, among many numbers, for either the larger numbers or the smaller numbers.
While thinking about whether a number is large or small, focus on finding the numbers.
Some older adults may feel, “I can’t find any at all.” But there’s no need to worry.
The goal isn’t necessarily to find them; simply looking for large or small numbers itself serves as brain training.
Find the same items
We’d like to introduce a matching game that’s recommended even for people who find arithmetic or reading and writing difficult, as well as for seniors who aren’t comfortable with them.
Look for items in a picture that match the prompt.
Searching for images that are the same as the prompt requires observation and memory skills, which helps stimulate the brain.
You can focus and play on your own, or enjoy it while chatting in a larger group.
With a big group, forming teams of several seniors and doing a team competition could be exciting.
It may also encourage interaction with others.
In conclusion
How did you like the brain-teaser quiz for seniors? Training your insight not only helps prevent dementia in older adults, but it can also help stave off memory decline.
Sharing answers together and even tossing out wrong ones might be part of the fun that makes these quizzes so lively.