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Dec 10, 2021

Puzzles For Those In Senior Care To Maintain Brain Activity

Written By: Tom Crowe
Home Instead CAREGiver and senior smiling and working on puzzle

The brain is a lot like a muscle: in order to stay sharp, it needs exercise. And also like muscles, it can deteriorate more rapidly among those in need of eldercare services. Sherman Oaks, CA area elderly assisted living services can help their clients find activities that help the brain healthy and strong.

In fact, some of the best activities for those who need home care assistance in Sherman Oaks, CA include word puzzles, logic games, and crossword puzzles, like those that can be found online. These can usually be done online, while some can also be printed off and done by hand with a pen or pencil.

Keeping the brain limber through such activities helps a good deal with warding off problems that seniors face, and is one of the most important and powerful things a senior care agency can do to help. Without such exercises there may be a need for Alzheimer’s elderly care, or care for seniors with dementia. Sherman Oaks, CA is fortunate, because Home Instead is a to have an elderly companion agency that knows what to do.

The trained, licensed, and bonded CAREGivers of Home Instead will happily find games like the below ones and share them with clients to whom they provide home care assistance. Sherman Oaks, CA seniors are fortunate to have such an elderly companion option.

Here are some great resources for free games.

AARP.com

One really good place to find games is the website of AARP. There you’ll find crosswords puzzles, as well as games like Mahjongg and Trivia! Their crossword puzzle isn’t the easiest to use, but the clues are pretty straightforward for even novice crossword puzzlers. AARP gives the option to print off their puzzles to do by hand, or to do them online.

Dictionary.com

The second puzzle site we’ll offer is Dictionary.com. They provide a new online crossword puzzle every day. The puzzle is easy to do, and it responds very quickly when showing a new clue. The person doing the puzzle can choose to do it on an easier setting — where it tells you immediately if the letter you put in is correct — or a more difficult setting, where it doesn’t. But the clues are easy enough that no one should have to get out their thesaurus or dictionary!

QETS.com

The third website we’ll share also provides a large number of crossword puzzles, but this site only provides puzzles for printing out. If you go to the QETS.com website, and then click on “FREE large print crossword and wordsearch puzzles,” the page you’ll be taken to will have many puzzles to be be printed off and completed by hand.

And since technology, like printing, can be frustrating for even the most experienced computer person, don’t worry if you have difficulty printing off a page. The friendly and compassionate residential assisted living CAREGivers of Home Instead will happily lend a hand.

Contact Home Instead today to speak with our CAREGivers and schedule either a remote or an in-home assessment. Call 818-805-2208 or contact Home Instead online.

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