Guest Tinki Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 Read this article about the brain exercising! http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/innovat..._442620_57.html Then check out these to products - very interesting MindFit – Program http://www.cognifit.com/?page=40 Positscience - http://www.positscience.com/programs/ Karen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavenstar 0 Report Share Posted March 11, 2008 Those are great articles. Last year, our nurse began a series of Memory Workshops to help our residents work around memory problems, increase brain function and even how to increase memory. One of the many things that everyone was interested in was Brain Age with the Nintendo DS LIte. Several residents had their families buy them one for Hanukkah or Christmas. We even started a Brain Game activity in addition to the Memory Workshops. In the activity, I put out simple jigsaw puzzles, metal puzzles (getting rings off of horseshoes chained together), paper puzzles such as crossword, word search and easy math problems. There are so many free websites that offer brain games that you can print. The Mindfit sounds really good too! I can't wait to try it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstevens 0 Report Share Posted March 11, 2008 Another great system is Dakim's [M] Power. It has a touch screen for those residents who are not computer literate or cognitively impaired residents. http://www.dakim.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavenstar 0 Report Share Posted March 15, 2008 That system sounds really cool! I love the fact that it has face recognition and a touch screen! Do you know how much it costs? I found one place where the site said it costs .44 a day per user (up to 20 users), so with my calculations-- about $3212. Do you have one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstevens 0 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 That system sounds really cool! I love the fact that it has face recognition and a touch screen! Do you know how much it costs? I found one place where the site said it costs .44 a day per user (up to 20 users), so with my calculations-- about $3212. Do you have one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstevens 0 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 That system sounds really cool! I love the fact that it has face recognition and a touch screen! Do you know how much it costs? I found one place where the site said it costs .44 a day per user (up to 20 users), so with my calculations-- about $3212. Do you have one? We just purchased one for our Assisted Living and Memory Support building in Palo Alto. It hasn't yet been installed. It is a pilot to see if we like it enough to put it in our other CCRCs. It's expensive: $6000.00 for the machine and $100.00 per month for up to 20 users. It doesn't have to be the same 20 users, you can do classes for a specific time period to give eveyone the opportunity to participate. We are also expecting that residents in our Indepdent Living building will be curious enough to visit the Assited Living building to try it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavenstar 0 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 Just checking in with you.... How is the program going? Do you like it and is it worth the money? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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