5 Ways Brain Training Can Help Seniors 

If you’re a senior—or love someone who is—and have noticed changes to their memory, problem-solving, processing speed, focus, and confidence take note; LearningRx’s personal brain training has a track record of helping seniors improve these areas. 

Curious to learn more about how personal brain training helps seniors? Our Results Report spells out our standard score gains for former clients. In the meantime, here’s a quick overview of five specific cognitive skills that LearningRx personal brain training may be able to boost: 

1. Auditory Processing for Seniors

This skill helps us distinguish, blend, and segment sounds accurately. If reading or understanding new words is hard, then developing auditory processing skills may be beneficial. With these skills, a person can continue to stay on top of their game in conversations and books.

2. Long-term and Working Memory for Seniors

Long-term memory helps us efficiently recall facts and store information. Working memory allows us to hold on to and use information during the learning process. Everyone forgets where they put their keys sometimes, however building memory skills isn’t over when you reach a certain age. Through a phenomenon called neuroplasticity, researchers have discovered how the brain can make new connections. With brain training, it’s possible to build this skill or make it stronger.

3. Logic & Reasoning for Seniors

This skill helps us reason, form ideas, and solve problems.  For instance, if planning out vacations and logistics is more confusing and stressful than it usually is, then boosting the logic & reasoning skills may help a person handle confusing situations more easily.

4. Visual Processing for Seniors

This skill enables us to create and picture mental images while thinking or reading. If reading a scene in a book is hard to understand, or directions from a grocery store attendant helping you look for a particular item, then your reading visual processing may need strengthening. Reading forces us to create pictures in our minds to help us comprehend what is happening.

5. Processing Speed for Seniors

Processing speed helps us learn new information and how to apply it to situations. With this skill, one can think and perform tasks quickly and accurately. This skill is useful for almost any circumstance, but one example is when a pharmacist hands you a new prescription and instructs you on how to use the medicine. In that scenario, you will need to know how to take the medicine correctly.

Cognitive Skills are Crucial to Seniors

It’s easy to see how these brain skills would be vital to maintaining important everyday interests and tasks. From driving and paying bills to thwart would-be scammers and remembering to take medications, these cognitive skills are crucial to ensuring seniors can live, work, and play independently on their own for years to come.  

Curious how these five brain skills (or others) are performing? Schedule a Brain Skills Assessment for yourself or someone you love. The test only takes about an hour and the results will tell us which cognitive skills are up to par and which could use a boost. 

Using the results of the Brain Skills Assessment, your LearningRx team will create a personalized brain training program designed to target and strengthen any cognitive skills. The programs are fun but challenging, and we’ve helped seniors live more fulfilling, independent lives by improving their ability to think, learn, process, and remember important information.  

We encourage you to explore our website, www.LearningRx.com, to learn more about our program and the results we’ve experienced with other seniors. You can always start with a Brain Skills Assessment at your nearest LearningRx. There’s no obligation to sign up for brain training, and the results can provide you with valuable information about your cognitive skills strengths and weaknesses. Simply visit www.LearningRx.com to find the nearest personal brain training center.