Senior Care Providers and Patients Excel When Therapy Is a Game

October 31, 2017 by Senior Housing News

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In some senior living communities, the therapy gym is also becoming a therapy arcade. That’s because technologies such as virtual reality have brought “gamification” to rehab.

For example, whereas patients would have lifted weights to build strength and mobility in the past, now they might play a game of virtual volleyball.

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