News: Canadian Pensioners Loving Brain Age

The patients of the Toronto Memory Program, which helps those folks with Alzheimer's, have been playing a familiar game on their DS'...

A better example of Nintendo expanding the group of people we class as gamers has probably never existed. Meet Leif Larsson, 82, and Sidney Cohen, 72, both patients at the Toronto Memory Program, who have been playing Brain Training to keep their brain's active througout the day.

"This is something I can do in between TV programs and give myself a wake-up call to see if I'm still alert," said patient Sidney Cohen, who was apparently very pleased he beat one of the doctors at the Program - the younger Dr. Sharon Cohen, a behavioural neurologist at the Toronto Memory Program - by several years.

The full article can be found on Canada.com here!


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