Brain health is something that everyone should be working on. If you are a family caregiver for your elderly loved one, you can help them to improve their brain health. There are actually many ways that this can be done. Below you will read about some of the tips that are easiest to implement. If your elderly loved one can do these things, they can start improving their brain health immediately.

Signing Up for Social Media Sites

Many elderly people don’t really understand the point in social media sites. However, research shows that – in some circumstances – social media can help to improve a person’s brain health. If someone uses social media for communicating with their loved ones and friends, it can help to lower their stress and anxiety levels. When a person has lower stress and anxiety levels, they can think, concentrate, and remember things better. If your elderly loved one needs help creating social media accounts, you or your loved one’s caregivers can help them with it.

Playing Ping-Pong

It may seem silly to some, but playing ping-pong can help to boost brain health. This may have been a game that your elderly loved played years ago. However, they can start playing it again. Research shows that playing sports can boost blood flow to the brain. This can help to lower the risk of dementia and other disorders. In addition, ping pong helps to improve your elderly loved one’s reflexes. The brain has to be activated to improve reflexes. As you can see, there are many ways that playing ping pong can improve a person’s brain health.

Learning New Languages

Your elderly loved one can boost their brain health by learning new languages, too. Research shows that it takes a lot to learn a new language. Your elderly loved one will be retaining new information, focusing on what they are learning, and improving their cognitive functions, too. If your elderly loved one has always wanted to learn a new language, now is the time for them to do that. If needed, you or caregivers can give your elderly loved one study sessions for the new language they are learning.

Conclusion

There are many great ways for your elderly loved one to boost their brain health. The options mentioned above are some good ways to start doing this. If needed, you or your elderly loved one’s caregivers can help them to do these things. For example, you can do study sessions with your elderly loved one with the new language they want to learn. The caregivers can play some ping pong with your elderly loved one. As long as your elderly loved one is making some steps to improve their brain health, that is all that matters.

If you or an aging loved one are considering hiring a Caregiver in Anderson, SC, contact Heart of the Carolinas Home Care at 864-991-3116. Providing Home Care Services in Greenville, Simpsonville, Greer, Anderson, Spartanburg, Mauldin, Seneca, Laurens, Charleston, Columbia and the surrounding areas.

Sources

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3311304/

https://www.cdc.gov/aging/publications/features/healthy-body-brain.html

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Edward Harrison

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Edward Harrison founded the Heart of the Carolinas Homecare in 2007 when he saw there was a need for caregivers that provide non-medical home care services, at a price that most people could afford. It was standard in the industry to require hourly minimums and it was common to be assigned a caregiver, not matched with one based on your individual personal needs. Edward understood that to make a successful relationship between caregiver and client, skills were not enough, personality and compatibility plays as much a role as do skills.

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