Grandparents these days are boring. Ok, some people might have exciting grandparents but the majority of us don’t. They sit around in their rocking chairs, do crosswords and eat sugar free ice cream. One thing that probably bugs the average kid is that his grandparents don’t even know what a computer is, let alone an Xbox or Play Station. Now kids the world over have some hope that their grandparents could learn to be “cool” or “hype”. A recent study in New York on 40 adults in their 60s and 70s showed that those who played a strategic video game improved some cognitive functions such as memory and ability to multi-task.
This could be great for a couple of reasons, it could help introduce older folks to technology, grandparents and parents would be able to understand what their kids are saying whenever their ranting about their video games, and their basic cognitive functions would be improved in the process.
The test is not completed though, further studies must be done to determine whether cognitive abilities would be improved playing all video games or just the one tested. Either way this is the first step to ushering our grandparents and parents into the 21st century.
http://www.theprovince.com/technology/gaming/Videogames+aging+brain+good/1105410/story.html
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