Ever thought that active fun could save you from Alzheimer’s disease? Alzheimer’s disease affects the memory and behavior of a person. It also affects language ability, ability to take decisions and make judgments. This disease usually proceeds at a small pace. There is no complete cure for it. The only way out is to change your life style.

• Getting involved in card games, chess, solving puzzles, riddles, doing crosswords and playing scrabble will reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
• Even certain pastime activities like walking, chatting with friends, cycling and reading, shoves aside this disease.
• Studies have found that such activities that involve mental alertness and learning can enhance the memory function. It fights the growth of abnormal tissues that cause Alzheimer’s.
• Making children play memory games would boost their memory power. There are games for children available in the market that would help them learn as well as have fun.
• Research has found out that those who were engaged in playing board games in their childhood days, were at a lower risk of suffering from memory loss.
• But, passive activities like watching television, does not help in sharpening the memory.