Description
Games for people with Alzheimer’s can be low-tech, high-tech, or anything in between. Every care community in the world probably has a Bingo game – and that’s about as low tech as you can get – yet Bingo has been shown to have positive effects when played by Alzheimer’s and other dementia patients.
One study reported in the American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementia found that playing Bingo specifically provides mental stimulation that is highly therapeutic. Patients participating in the study performed significantly better on measures of cognition. Staff members reported increases in alertness and in awareness in the test subjects for hours after testing.
Bingo was chosen in the above study because it is so well known. Most people have played it at one time or another. But there is nothing magical about Bingo. Any game that provides cognitive stimulation should produce similar results. Choose a game for and adapt the game to the level and the abilities of the person or people who are playing. As Alzheimer’s progresses a strategy game can become a matching activity. A matching game can become a stimulus for conversation.
Read more about the benefits of Bingo, and game-playing in general.
Bonnie –
VERY hard to see the colors
Very disappointed in this game. When you set the tiles on edge you can NOT make out the darker colors or shape. The blocks should have been white not black. My husband could not understand anything about the game, It was even hard for the other 3 players the first time. But again the worst thing is the black tiles.
Augusta –
sure it will be good
The pieces are small and haven’t been able to really review it.
A&A –
GREAT
Fun to play!