Geoff Fraser – Benefits of Green Spaces for Seniors
admin2021-04-19T16:44:02-04:00Outdoor Senior Wellness Playground The health benefits of getting outdoors and adding physical play lifts senior minds and bodies to a higher sense of well-being. “Humans are designed by biology to play throughout their entire life cycle,” states Stuart Brown, MD, founder of the National Institute for Play and author of the book “Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul.” “For older age groups, play has a role in fertilizing the brain and in producing increased brain-derived neurotrophic factor (a protein that encourages growth and new connections between nerve cells), particularly when there is social [...]