Video games against cognitive decline in the elderly

The video games commercials can have a therapeutic impact in older people with cognitive impairment? This question aims to answer the startup Madrid Golden Gamers Gowhich uses commercial video games as a tool to therapeutically, socially and cognitively stimulate older people, thus seeking to improve their well-being.

And Golden Gamers Go has announced that A scientific study will soon begin together with the Research Group on Participation, Roles, Occupations and Activities for the Transformation of Communities of the Rey Juan Carlos University (PROACT), with the objective precisely of “evaluate the therapeutic impact of commercial video games in older people with cognitive impairmentin a context where the evidence on this type of interventions is still limited”, as they have explained through their social networks.

“Since we started Golden Gamers, professionals, centers and families have told us the same need: measure, validate and generate evidence on the benefits of a methodology that, in practice, is already showing results. That process is already underway,” they say. And they explain that “this study is not only born from a scientific need.”

But “it is born from something that we have been observing for years: when emotion appears, participation appears. And when participation appears, something begins to change. Because It’s not just about introducing technology. It’s about using it sensibly. To put it at the service of what is most important: the experience, purpose and lives of people. And we want to continue walking that path with total commitment and conviction,” they explained.

It should be noted that the startup Madrid already defended last October, in the Investor and Demo Day organized by Madrid in Game, which its project developed for using video games in the treatment of elderly people with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive impairments had achieved “improvements in short-term memory” in his first tests. They also observed clinical improvements such as greater stability and balance. In fact, some studies have already highlighted the benefits of video games in older people, improving, for example, your memoryaccording to a study published by a group of experts in the journal Heliyon.