Games
Games keep Active
Keep your mind active: Activities that stimulate your brain help strengthen your mind. Learning new things, playing games such as chess, doing crosswords or reading will keep your mind busy and healthy.It is never too late to start learning new things. Learn more.
Last year Nintendo debuted Brain Age, a game to play on their handheld Nintendo DS. This year’s entry in this adult game-play arena is Brain Age 2. The premise of these games is that you can keep your brain active and young by stimulating the prefrontal cortex of your brain. You do this by using simple word and mathematical problems. Dr. Kawashima of Japan is the renowned neurologist who developed the games.
The nation’s 78 million baby boomers have hit middle age — the oldest boomers turn 60 this month — but many refuse to sink into the couch and wait for old age.Instead they run, ski and work out as hard as ever, playing the same sports they enjoyed in their 20s and 30s.The only problem: Their bodies are not as forgiving.Drew Coburn, 46, has already sustained 30 stitches, a broken nose, a torn shoulder muscle, a torn knee ligament, cartilage damage in both knees and a broken foot — the result of weekly pickup basketball games.
