WELLNESS MAHJONG – AN EFFECTIVE RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTHY PATHWAY TO FULFILLING ACTIVE AGING FOR ELDERLY

摘要

Wellness Mahjong focuses on using the traditional mahjong game to motivate the elderly lived and played actively by participating in the tournament organized under the modern sports model. The main purpose is to help the elderly to maintain a “healthy” body and mind, expand their “interesting” social circus, and feel the “vitality” of life. An experiment using the fNIRS to conduct “The Impact of Mahjong on the Cerebral Activity”, the results showed that mahjong plays an effective role in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease because respondents who actively play mahjong have a healthy brain by effectively activating the cerebral nerve cells. Wellness Mahjong allows the elderly have a thing to do and a place to go – it is crucial to the present aging era as it helps the elderly to expand their interesting social interactions as well as to achieve a healthy and vitality of life.