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Build Your Brain Power

Build Your Brain Power

Finding new challenges can help strengthen your body and mind as you age. Simple changes in your daily routine can build brainpower and your ability to master new things.

Thinking Games
• Test yourself with crosswords, Sudoku and other puzzles.
• Try your hand at a jigsaw puzzle or a Trivia game.

New Skills
• Teach a friend one of your talents in exchange for a lesson
from him or her.
• Learn new phrases in a foreign language or sign
language.
• Sign up for free computer and Internet lessons at a
senior center or library.
• Take music lessons.
• Memorize the words to a song you love.

Daily Tasks Done Differently
• Brush your teeth using your other hand.
• Shop at a different grocery store.
• Ask a friend or neighbor if you can take their dog for a walk.
• Listen to books-on-tape while on the move or at home.

Develop Your Creativity
• Share stories with your family, friends and neighbors and listen to theirs.
• Start a journal filled with recollections.
• Compose poetry or write a short story.
• Craft a birthday card instead of purchasing one.

To learn more about these and other issues related to eldercare, please contact us at:
(800) 544-0304.