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Acuity Games Offers Products to Stimulate the Brain of Older Adults
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Tucker Sutherland, editor
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Nov. 4, 2004 We
have carried news on several research projects indicating that dementia
can be slowed or prevented by regular activities that stimulate the
brain. Now there is a new Website designed to offer senior citizens the
tools for regular mental activity.
AcuityGames.com says they did
the research to put together this shopping site dedicated to providing
cognitive fitness products for older adults.
The site designers
say they sought products that are both mentally challenging and fun to
use.
A dozen or so years
ago, we saw my 70-year old mother struggle with and eventually give up
on a complicated jigsaw puzzle that she was working on with my 6-year
old son. When he went on to complete the puzzle with relative ease, her
reaction to his accomplishment was textbook grandmotherly, but she was
clearly perplexed, says one of the sites creators. Had her brain lost
the ability to formulate the strategy required to solve the puzzle? Was
this loss of cognitive ability an inevitable symptom of the aging
process? It was this and other similar events that lead to the early
inklings of Acuity Games.
We started Acuity
Games to provide a focused product resource for people who want to
improve and maintain the various aspects of cognitive function. We
provide a wide range of mentally challenging and entertaining products
from the classics to new and innovative computer software and
electronics and we are constantly updating our web site to assure that
our product catalog stays current and reflects both high quality and
good value, they say on the site.
Over the years,
research studies testing the Use it or Lose It hypothesis have been
conducted and the findings validate the importance of regularly engaging
in mental work-outs to improve and maintain the components of cognitive
function including memory, reasoning, concentration, problem solving and
information processing. Activities identified as helping in this regard
include solving crossword and logic puzzles and brainteasers, playing
board and card games and generally engaging in challenging pastimes that
require strategizing and mental engagement.
We research, test,
and sell a broad range of products. It is the intent of these products
to assist with the facilitation of cognitive maintenance and improvement
with an emphasis on leisure time, rather than therapeutic, utilization,
they say.
So if youre someone
whos interested in maintaining your mental edge or someone who
regularly spends time trying to remember where you left your car keys,
acuitygames.com is a great
place to visit.
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