OSCC13 - Brain Fitness for Boomers in Virtual Worlds The Wave of the Future?
Channel: AvaCon Inc
Date: 2013-09-30

Aging Boomers are a growing demographic in virtual worlds - seeking relaxation but also cognitive stimulation, spiritual communities, social connections, and other positive ways to stay engaged with life. In Second Life, Lynne's Whole Brain Health Fairgrounds give visitors hands-on experiences and activities that promote well-being as people age, based on current research from psychology, neuroscience, and the arts. Virtual worlds can effectively offer both education about brain fitness and actual practice of behaviors that produce a healthy lifestyle, even if participants are geographically isolated, housebound or disabled. Lynne will illustrate how the Fairgrounds offer scientifically validated programs that can lead to better lifestyle choices inworld and out.

Lynne Berrett/Lissena Wisdomseeker (M.A., M.S.W.) has been a university instructor in literature, a college counselor for at risk-students, a psychotherapist in private practice, and (in semi-retirement) a life coach. She is a co-leader of the MentorCoach Alliance for Positive Psychology. She and her husband, a musicologist, blog about the connection between music and well-being at http://musicandhappiness.com and are active in the American Society on Aging.

About the OpenSimulator Community Conference 2013:  The OpenSimulator Community Conference is an annual conference that focuses on the community around the OpenSimulator software.  The conference features two days of presentations, workshops, keynote sessions, and social events across diverse sectors of the OpenSimulator user base.  Organized as a joint production by the Overte Foundation and AvaCon, Inc., the first annual conference was hosted on an OpenSimulator grid specifically designed for the conference, and had 369 attendees.  

For more information see http://conference.opensimulator.org.