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5 Books to Keep Senior's Minds in Working Order

Books truly are a manu2019s best friends and a friend in need for seniors are books that keep you company as well as help you with your health. Here are a few books that can help you maintain optimal brain functioning. For more information visit https://www.wel.org/ or call 1-877-824-3935.ttt

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5 Books to Keep Senior's Minds in Working Order

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  1. 5 Books to Keep Senior's Minds in Working Order Brain disorders related to ageing like dementia, Alzheimer, Parkinson are increasing in statistics nowadays and have often created a wave of anxiety in the seniors as they see their friends and close ones getting affected by it more and more. After all what good is living longer if your brain can’t go the distance? Reading books can not only help you feel less lonely and help you travel into various worlds while physically being in the same place, but it also helps you keep your brain active and challenged which helps you develop a fresh perspective and keep your memory intact. 1. When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanthi. This book written by a neurosurgeon who goes from saving lives to battling for his own life as he suffers from lung cancer. His journey and his transformation from being a medical student to a patient provide a lot of perspective as well as answers to some life and death questions.

  2. 2. Mind your mind by Beatrice Seagull and Sara Seagull. This book is a mental fitness guide that contains exercises that help you improve memory skills, flexible thinking, perception, and reasoning and contains worksheets that help you test your various mental skills. In addition to that this book also states support strategies for coping with memory loss and other cognitive disabilities. 3. Think Smart: A Neuroscientist’s Prescription for Improving Your Brain’s Performance by Richard Restak, M.D. A book that contains recent advances and research about the brain and its disorders and then goes on to give strategies on how to have our brains functioning in an optimal condition and combat brain disorders. 4. 100 Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer’s and Age-Related Memory Loss by Jean Carper. The title is self-explanatory this book contains preventative activities that help you at least postpone the onset of Alzheimer’s if not eliminate it completely. 5. The Neurogenesis Diet and Lifestyle: Upgrade Your Brain, Upgrade Your Life by Brant Cortright Ph.D. A well-curated and easy to understand guide that helps you live a life that decreases the rate of deterioration of your brain and provides the latest neuroscience research that presents a new and proven view of brain health and ageing. For more information on ways to improve your well-being visit https://www.wel.org/.

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