14/01/2024
Activities that help in people having neurological disorders like Parkinson's disease and dementia.
Even a moderate amount of physical exercise can benefit us all, including those with neurological diseases like Parkinson’s disease. Harvard Health Publishing notes that, “Exercise boosts your memory and thinking skills both directly and indirectly. It acts directly on the body by stimulating physiological changes, … along with encouraging production of growth factors — chemicals that affect the growth of new blood vessels in the brain, and even the abundance, survival, and overall health of new brain cells.”
Nutrition can also play an important role in promoting better brain function. A study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that adhering to a Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes whole grains, fruits, vegetables, fish, and other items, is associated with improved cognitive function.
In terms of brain exercises for people with Parkinson’s disease, one option is doing games and puzzles such as word searches.
The American Parkinson Disease Association suggests several brain exercises in which a person must look at a group of images and try to categorize them or spot the differences. These activities remind me of the exercises websites may ask us to perform to verify that we are a human and not a robot. Think, “Select all the squares that include a bus.”
Another brain workout that helps is adding or subtracting manually without a calculator.
The elderly/adult activity centre has a lot of exercises and activities that helps people suffering from neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease to regain certain comfort in the day to day living.
