The Stanford School of Medicine recently featured a study on their SCOPE blog that discussed the possibility of using video games to bolster mental health capacity among older adults. Please see below for an excerpt from the study:
“Much of the psychological research conducted on the impact of digital games has focused on the possible adverse effects of playing digital games. Contrary to these and other studies, the findings of the current investigation suggest that older adults who reported playing digital games score, on average, significantly better than non-digital game playing on measures assessing a number of domains of successful aging.”