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[For Seniors] Play Long and Have Fun! A Whiteboard Activity with Brain-Training Elements

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Worked as a certified care worker for 17 years.Nanaka
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Whiteboard recreation activities are popular in senior facilities.

Because everyone can get excited together, they help improve communication among seniors.

They don’t require physical exertion, so it’s easy to participate, which is a nice plus.

Among whiteboard activities, we’ve carefully selected popular brain-training games that you can enjoy without getting bored.

Even fun activities can become repetitive if they’re always the same, right? The whiteboard activities we’re introducing this time are designed to prevent boredom by changing and customizing the prompts.

They help stimulate seniors’ brains, so be sure to give them a try!

[For Seniors] Long-lasting, fun activities! Whiteboard games with brain-training elements (41–50)

An association game using initials

[June Recommended Rec] Two Patterns of Association Brain Training Games [Whiteboard Brain Training]

An association game using initials

How about some brain training with a word association game? We’ll start by listing keywords for the prompt “What comes to mind in June?” Once we’ve got words like “rainy season,” “hydrangea,” and “snail,” we’ll use the five-letter word “hydrangea” (ajisai) this time.

Take the initial sounds “a,” “ji,” “sa,” and “i,” and set each to form a word of any length.

It’ll look like: “a〇〇,” “ji〇〇〇,” “sa〇〇〇〇,” “i〇〇.” Finally, think of letters to fill in the 〇’s and complete the words.

It’s that thing they do on variety shows as a comedy-improv segment.

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In conclusion

We introduced whiteboard activities that you can enjoy for a long time without getting bored. The great thing about whiteboard activities is that they’re easy to prepare, and conversations naturally expand, so it gets lively even with tangents and mistakes. Try enjoying them with an awareness of shifting your thinking without worrying about failures or wrong answers.