Hospital hosts mahjong event to improve seniors’ cognitive function
Hospital hosts mahjong event to improve seniors’ cognitive function
2025-07-01
As Taiwan becomes a super-aged society, postponing and preventing dementia is a topic of increasing public concern. One hospital in Chiayi organized a mahjong event designed to exercise the brain, inviting seniors with mild cognitive decline to play mahjong together. This stimulates their brain, enhancing their memory and training hand-eye coordination. Participants thoroughly enjoyed the activity, with smiles all around.
Four to a table, these seniors are having a blast playing mahjong. This event is hosted by a hospital and tailored specifically to seniors to help their cognitive function.
Participant
It puts me in a good mood, exercises my brain, and gives everyone a chance to bond and socialize.
Skillfully shuffling and stacking the tiles, these seniors are more than ready to play. As Taiwan becomes a super-aged society, postponing and preventing dementia is a topic of increasing concern. This hospital organized a special mahjong activity, inviting seniors whose cognitive function is starting to decline to come together and exercise their brains through the game.
Tsai Yu-tai
Dementia center director
When they first came, they just sat here looking sickly and not doing much. But once they got to the mahjong table, their movements became swift and agile. We can’t even compete!
For those not familiar with mahjong, the hospital also prepared an interesting matching game where they can arrange the tiles according to a pattern, like solving a puzzle. By playing mahjong, the participants stimulate their brains, improve their cognition and giving them a chance to socialize.
Tsai Yu-tai
Dementia center director
Through playing games like this, we help seniors to train their memory, focus, and problem-solving skills, so that all these cognitive functions can be maintained.
Playing mahjong helps improve memory and concentration and trains hand-eye coordination. Here seniors can also make new friends, reducing loneliness as well as risk of dementia. Many participants enjoyed it so much that they didn’t want it to end.
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醫院設計"健腦麻將" 助長輩活化腦力.手眼協調
2025-07-01
隨著台灣邁入超高齡社會，如何有效預防與延緩失智症，是全民關注的健康議題，嘉義就有醫院，特別設計「健腦麻將」活動，邀請多位認知功能稍有退化的長輩齊聚一堂，透過麻將活化腦力，不只加強記憶力，還能訓練手眼協調，讓長輩笑得合不攏嘴，捨不得結束活動。
長輩四人一桌，開心打麻將，彷彿來到棋藝館，但其實這裡是醫院，這趣味的麻將活動，是為長輩量身打造。
[[打麻將長輩]]
“心情好，動動腦啦，大家交誼式的聯絡感情”
手腳俐落的洗牌、疊牌，長輩們迫不及待進入遊戲，台灣正式邁入超高齡社會，如何有效預防與延緩失智症，是全民關注的健康議題，醫院為此特別推出"健腦麻將"活動，現場邀請多位認知功能稍有退化的長輩，齊聚一堂，透過麻將活化腦力。
[[聖馬爾定失智共照中心主任 蔡育泰]]
“剛來的時候也坐在這裡，好像也都病懨懨的，不太做什麼事情，但是一上牌桌，你看他的動作之俐落靈活，我們都自嘆不如”
要是不熟悉麻將規則，院方也準備了麻將對對碰的遊戲，讓長輩對照圖案來擺放，是相當趣味的益智遊戲，院方也希望透過麻將遊戲，能刺激長輩大腦，改善認知，還能促進社交。
[[聖馬爾定失智共照中心主任 蔡育泰]]
“透過我們這樣的一個遊戲呢，我們訓練長輩的，不管是記憶力啦、專注力啦，解決問題的能力，讓他這個各個方面的腦力能繼續維持”
透過趣味麻將遊戲，除了加強記憶力跟專注力，還能訓練手眼協調，更能交到牌友，降低憂鬱跟失智風險，也讓參與長輩直呼，開心的捨不得結束！
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