Join us for an Informative and Interactive Presentation on Brain Health

Innovative ways to boost brain health have emerged in recent years. Come and learn what it takes to keep your brain fit and try some new techniques to stay sharp. 

Guest speaker Tonia Vojtkofsky, Psy.D., researcher for UC Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders and UC Irvine Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, is our guest presenter for this exciting event. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear from an expert in the field of brain health. 

Please join us for this informative and interactive presentation, 

hosted by Summer House at Walnut Village:

Thursday, May 7, 2015 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm 

Walnut Village’s Lifelong Learning Center 891 S. Walnut Street, Anaheim, CA 92802 

Beverages and appetizers • Complimentary valet parking 

Tours available RSVP by Friday, May 1 to Marina (714) 507-7005.

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Summer House at Walnut Village
891 S. Walnut Street Anaheim, CA 92802 

(714) 507-7005 

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Playing Computer Games to Boost Aging Brains

By Sonya Collins, WebMD Health News

For more than 2 years, Jeanne Roach found a seat at an open computer terminal in the e-café at the Villa Gardens retirement community in Pasadena, CA, and she did a “20-minute circuit workout” for her brain.

“You look at a series of pictures, then the pictures are removed, and you’re asked, ‘In which picture were the men wearing hats?’” says Roach, 88, a retired human resources specialist. “There are math problems – what we used to call ‘story problems’ when I was growing up. I happened to do pretty well with the word games, but not well with the math.”

The challenges, according to game-maker Dakim BrainFitness, are meant to exercise six mental skills: long-term memory, short-term memory, language, computation, critical thinking, and the perception of spatial relationships between objects (called visuospatial ability).

Read article in full at webmd.com