This week, I arrived at the senior center with another activity I had prepared. Sometimes it is a new game, a Sudoku page, or a flyer I worked on earlier in the week. Bringing something in and pulling...

When I played cognitive games from the podium, only about half of the cafeteria participated. The people who joined brought a lot of energy, but many others stayed quiet. By August, I was less focused...

By July, I had been seeing many of the same seniors week after week. The visits still included games, but I was thinking less about scores and more about how familiar the room had become. I no longer...

Each week, I still come to the senior center with a new activity or a variation of an older one. By June, making the games had become its own part of the project. I was not just finding a worksheet...

By May, the cognitive games were no longer one-time activities. I had been coming back every week, designing something new, and working with some of the same seniors repeatedly. I had played with Mrs...

After going to the senior center every week, I started noticing things that I probably would have missed during one visit. The differences between groups were especially hard to ignore. One group...

By April, going to the senior center had become part of my weekly routine. I was still bringing cognitive games, but the visits did not feel as formal as they had at the beginning. I was no longer...

After bringing the memory games to the senior center for a few weeks, I started noticing patterns in what the seniors remembered. I was not really expecting that. I had mostly been focused on whether...

In March, I started bringing more interactive cognitive games to the senior center. After spending the previous month talking with seniors and noticing how differently they remembered things, I wanted...