Bingo Keeps the Mind Active When Growing Old
29 June 2009 | By: Casinotop10
It’s no secret that staying active helps the senior citizens to stay in shape, both mentally and physically. Yet now a study published in the “Archives of Internal Medicine Journal” pointed out that playing bingo can be a welcome activity in the “staying active”-department.
Playing Bingo – Mental Fitness
This study’s main conclusion is that playing bingo and having an active social life when growing old, help to prevent one from getting disabled. More specifically it indicated that these activities would reduce the chances of developing a major disability by no less than 65%, and death by an astonishing 40%. While bingo is a relatively easy game to master it requires a great deal of concentration, as every player is required to keep close track of the numbers that are being called. Besides the need for sharp focus, it requires one to look up and score out the right numbers, which in turn stimulates the hand-to-eye coordination.
Playing Bingo – Socializing
From all gaming activities bingo is perhaps the most social one. Even when it comes to online bingo, the roomies tend to chitchat, get to know each other and not seldom even become friends in real life. Bingo operators like 888ladies.com are consciously putting in efforts to build an online bingo community to support this socializing effect. It’s also this aspect of the game of bingo that, according to the report, could play an integral part in slowing motor function decline and other adverse health outcomes. The researchers point out that this casual linkage has to be further examined in order to come to more firm conclusions.
