Do you do specific things to exercise your brain?

[OldOld]

I manage everything myself: financial planning, travel planning, healthcare/wellness planning, cooking, shopping, exercising, traveling...etc. All of these keep my mind and body busy.
My aunt had dementia for years (but died of heart attack). I suspect I have the gene, and I am trying to find out if I do. But I do feel I have brain fog occasionally. My aunt kept a note book and wrote down everything she was supposed to do in the notebook. She lived by herself and cleverly hide her condition until the last 3 years of her life when we arranged her to lived with my cousin's family. I felt tremendous sadness whenever I read her notebook. She was a strong independent woman. May God bless her soul.

 

[Paco Dennis]

Something I learned to do while meditating. Focus and mindfulness. While the mind is relatively calm it will wander. When it does i become aware of that and refocus my attention on my breathing or object to focus on. I do this often throughout the day so I keep my mind sharp and comments dull.

 

[ChiroDoc]

The NY Times is no longer within my budget. The Washington Post has a free daily puzzle which is in fact the LA Times puzzle. It drops at midnight so if I'm still up, and I am, I do it right away. Then I go to something called Your Puzzle Source for another daily. Then there is Boatload puzzles. They have thousands available but they are not themed and lack the wit of the NY and LA Times puzzles. I probably do a half dozen of those each day with less enthusiasm.

You can get the crossword puzzles for free the NY times (via the Seattle Times), NY Post, L.A. Times and others online. You can do the puzzles on their websites, but I like to print them out, then do them in pencil. Old fashioned that way.

 

[chic]

My hand and wrist were broken in the car crash... my palm and the back of my hand were ripped to shreads. On the actual night ofthe accident.. at 1am, 2 female plastic surgeons sewed my hand back together where it had been torn to ribbons. They had to inject the aneasthetic into each seperate bloody tear in my hand... a total of 12 injections into the raw wounds, I've never felt anything so painful , but I have massive respect for those surgeons working on me in the early hours of the morning... all the while one was saying how her back was killing her...

I'm speechless. So sorry this has happened to you. Was it just in one hand? Will your injured hand be functional again. To think we used to worry about OA. Hugs and good thoughts for you to get through this. Do you have help around the house now? There must be things you can't do right now without assistance.

 

[gruntlabor]

I understand that one of the best things we can do to try to keep dementia at bay is to create new pathways in the brain, and that one of the easiest ways we can do that is by learning a new language.
Also, we should control our sugars intake

 

[IrishEyes]

I do online card games when I just need to shut down my thoughts (which I guess is the opposite of exercising the brain)
I like to look up things I wonder about, like how did this or that state/city get it's name. Places and origin history are interesting to me.
I dabble in genealogy at times and found my paternal side has some very interesting people in it to me.

 

[hollydolly]

I'm speechless. So sorry this has happened to you. Was it just in one hand? Will your injured hand be functional again. To think we used to worry about OA. Hugs and good thoughts for you to get through this. Do you have help around the house now? There must be things you can't do right now without assistance.

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chic, it's all documented on this thread with pictures... x Forum member seriously injured

 

[hollydolly]

You can get the crossword puzzles for free the NY times (via the Seattle Times), NY Post, L.A. Times and others online. You can do the puzzles on their websites, but I like to print them out, then do them in pencil. Old fashioned that way.

i buy 2 crossword puzzle books every month..one is entirely cryptic puzzles

 

[gruntlabor]

I manage everything myself: financial planning, travel planning, healthcare/wellness planning, cooking, shopping, exercising, traveling...etc. All of these keep my mind and body busy.
My aunt had dementia for years (but died of heart attack). I suspect I have the gene, and I am trying to find out if I do. But I do feel I have brain fog occasionally. My aunt kept a note book and wrote down everything she was supposed to do in the notebook. She lived by herself and cleverly hide her condition until the last 3 years of her life when we arranged her to lived with my cousin's family. I felt tremendous sadness whenever I read her notebook. She was a strong independent woman. May God bless her soul.

re brain fog: I don't know what that is, but my head is always in the clouds, daydreaming or thinking ahead or remembering. When moving around I'm continually having to remind myself to SNAP OUT OF IT, pay attention to what I am doing (as boring as that may be)

 

[MountainRa]

Avid reader. Crosswords, sudoku, celebrity cipher, word jumble, online jigsaw puzzles, Word Trails

Learning Spanish on Duolingo. This is the most taxing thing on my brain and especially memory.

on SiriusXM, I listen to the Escape channel, which is just instrumentals, and try to guess the name of the song playing without looking. This makes me really reach back into my memories bank.

 

[IrishEyes]

I have to add, that joining this forum has educated me in many things that I hadn't been thinking about.
So Thank You all for having such diverse interests and wanting to share them. And the Humor! Without humor life is too serious.

 

[timoc]

Do you do specific things to exercise your brain?​

When the big hand is on 12 and the little hand is on 4, I know it's time to switch the kettle on to make a pot of tea.

 

[palides2021]

Three years ago, I earned my Ph.D. at age 65. It took me 3 1/2 years to attain it. Lots of reading and writing. I currently teach online university courses, which require knowing quite a bit of technology. I also play violin and am learning to paint watercolor. I have been tutoring a student for close to 6 months on her Math GED. These activities use both sides of my brain. I try and do crossword puzzles, write poetry, and am involved in a nonprofit organization as their secretary. I cannot sit still.

 

[Imogene]

I have had three serious concussions in my lifetime. Two of the three I could have easily “Bought The Farm”.

One I was out until the EMT’s arrived at the campground site.

I am an organizer by nature and have always managed my own affairs, even when married, which helps keep the brain cells twirling in the right direction.

As with many others commenting, I also do online crossword puzzles.

 

[Elsie]

I find that I do a lot of trying to figure out a person(s) personality. Their interests, their likes & dislikes. When my eldest daughter first started her studies on human nature for her family counseling career, I told her Now don't go and analyze me. She got a look on her face like she already was. lol