Aerobics of the Mind: Keeping the Mind Active in Aging : A New Perspective on Programming for Older Adults [Hardcover]

Marge Engelman (Author)

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• Hardcover: 199 pages
• Publisher: Venture Pub (April 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0910251843
• ISBN-13: 978-0910251846
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,580,498 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Aerobics of the Mind, August 25, 2003

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Luther P Christman Ph.D.,R.N. (Chapel Hill, Tn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Aerobics of the Mind: Keeping the Mind Active in Aging : A New Perspective on Programming for Older Adults (Hardcover)

This text is an innovative approach to stimulating individual learning and subsequent constructive action. The author clearly expresses the means by which each aging individual can continue to remain alert and progressive in thinking and action. It is a useful guide to keep the elderly in step with the steady growth of the utilization and expansion of knowledge.
The text is arrayed in six sections. These are (1)introduction, (2)Model programs, (3) Exercises and Activities, (4) Pep talks, (5) Answers to Games, Quizzes and Puzzles and (5) Resources. The author formulated this methodology for action while doing research on creativity and aging with women who all were over the age of seventy. She quotes the scientific studies that show that even in old age the brain has a remarkable tendency to change and grow. This is especially true if the brain is stimulated by regular use. Throughout the book there is a steady unfolding of how to do this to keep each brain active and willing to learn. There is a steady and imaginative approach to how to make the commonplace and usual a means for growth and development by group interaction as a means of opening the mind to the subtlties of learning in a way that opens the means to the desire for more insight into the real world rather than limiting it to the personal world. The long and interesting examples of this is a prod to each individual to contribute to growth and development of the brain.
The 100 exercises for a healthy mind which are mental fitness cards developed by the Attainment Company, Inc. are a very good means of helping each person to address the growth of brain functioning. These are divided into twelve categories such as (1)wake up your brain,(2)creative problem solving,(3)art and imagination, (4)brainstorming, (5) double mind and seven other similar and helpful categories. The hundred versions of activities in themselves are an incentive to action and can be used in any order so that a monotonous routine may be changed to a desireable action. The steady use of this approach will help form the concept of keeping abreast of the expansion of knowledge and reduce obsolesence to the same degree that the entire populations faces. This text should stimulate many people in the middle age and elderly to reconsider thier lifestyle in order to move with knowledge expansion in a very constructive manner and to live a more composed life.

5.0 out of 5 stars Aerobics of the Mind, October 31, 2011

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Patricia A. Anderson (Grass Valley, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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