[For Older Adults] Games to Enhance Oral Function: Enjoyable and Easy to Do

Paper cup launching training

[Senior Recreation] Fun and Enjoyable! Boost Oral Function in Older Adults! Paper Cup Blowing Recreation

This is a simple oral motor exercise using paper cups.

Place a basket on the table and hold two stacked paper cups in your hand.

Blow air to launch the top cup and try to land it in the basket.

It’s important not only to blow strongly, but also to shape your lips—like pursing them—to control the airflow.

You can enjoy it as a game with a small group or multiple people.

Besides aiming for the basket, you can also see how far you can make the cup fly.

Give it a try to help keep your mouth healthy.

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Exercises to improve tongue and throat movements

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To improve swallowing function, training the throat and tongue can be effective.

Strengthening the muscles around the throat helps build swallowing power.

Tongue exercises are said to stimulate the salivary glands around the mouth, making it easier to produce saliva.

Please vocalize words that require large tongue movements or allow you to feel the movement of your throat.

While vocalizing, try to keep your jaw from moving by placing your hands on your cheeks, and be mindful of engaging your abdomen.

Incorporate these into your daily exercise routine to enhance your swallowing function.

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If Kamepatakara Song Exercise

Why not try some mouth-area exercises to the tune of the children’s song “Usagi to Kame” (The Hare and the Tortoise), which every Japanese person has heard? It’s simple: change the lyrics “Moshi moshi kame yo” to the syllables pa-ta-ka-ra and vocalize them.

Once you get used to it and feel more comfortable, add hand claps or foot stomps.

Doing multiple movements at the same time turns it into a dual task, which can also help train your brain.

You can do it anywhere, and doing it before meals is especially effective for preventing aspiration.

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Patakara Towel Catch Exercise

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Here is an idea for doing the Patakara exercise using a towel.

The Patakara exercise involves pronouncing the four syllables “pa,” “ta,” “ka,” and “ra” to engage the muscles of the mouth and tongue, helping to train the functions used for eating and swallowing.

In this version, you step in place while gripping and releasing a towel in time with the Patakara sounds.

This exercise is expected to benefit not only oral functions but also the maintenance and improvement of lower-limb strength and the prevention of falls.

The action of grasping and releasing helps build the quick, reflexive gripping power needed to catch yourself if you start to fall, which in turn supports a healthy daily life.

It’s easy to do and highly recommended.

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Pa-Ta-Ka-Ra alternating counting exercise

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Let me introduce a very simple exercise that also trains your brain: the alternating Pa-Ta-Ka counting exercise.

What you do is very simple! Say “pa” while raising the index finger of your left hand and keeping your right hand in a fist.

Next, say “ta,” raise two fingers on your right hand, and make a fist with your left hand.

Then, say “ka,” raise three fingers on your left hand, and make a fist with your right hand.

In this way, you alternate between your left and right hands while counting.

By having your brain process speaking and finger counting at the same time, multiple stimuli are sent to the brain, which is expected to help prevent cognitive decline.

Give it a try!

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Patakara Exercise Song

Patakara Exercise Song

This is an exercise where you say “pa-ta-ka-ra” in time with the Patakara Exercise Song to train the muscles around the mouth.

By vocalizing “pa-ta-ka-ra,” you can expect various benefits such as maintaining and improving chewing and swallowing strength, promoting saliva secretion, and stabilizing pronunciation.

Doing it especially before meals prepares your mouth and increases the effectiveness in preventing aspiration.

Continuing the exercise enhances its benefits.

Try to do it at least once a day, preferably before meals.

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Patakara Oral Exercise: Heaven and Hell

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Here’s an idea for a Patakara exercise set to the familiar “Orpheus in the Underworld” music often heard at sports festivals.

Although the piece has no lyrics, try pronouncing “pa ta ka ra” by going through the syllables: pa pi pu pe po, ta chi tsu te to, ka ki ku ke ko, ra ri ru re ro in time with the music.

Once you get used to it, speeding up the tempo can make it more fun.

Since this is a tune many people recognize, even first-timers should be able to do it smoothly.

Doing the exercise before meals can enhance its benefits, so in senior care facilities, please be mindful of the timing.

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