The Surprising Health Benefits of Playing Bingo Regularly

Bingo-playing may seem a caprice, yet its complicated mechanics require excellent hand-eye coordination. Older people can foster their ability to preserve or re-acquire their dexterity and motor skills through regular bingo playing.

Although the minimum age for Bingo is 16, it provides a good workout for the young mind. Fast intellect and cognitive capacity are needed if you wanna score it!

Improved Memory

With this game there’s an element of listening and spotting the numbers which calls for all the cognitive skills, keeping people going [so as to slow] down the clinical age and even get dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease patients back into normal memory in some cases.

Bingo’s inherent sociability also enables people to forge and sustain critical relationships (a big benefit in the fight against loneliness and depression): regular Bingo players, for example, are less likely to suffer from loneliness and depression compared with their irregular Bingo-playing counterparts.

The fact that everybody has the same chance of winning fosters unfriendly competition so that players, whether playing against other friends or strangers, are able to learn good sportsmanship. Last but not least, nurturing hand-eye coordination is made easier and less stressful while playing Bingo, which also releases endorphins, our body’s natural soothing drugs, to boost mood and improve wellbeing.

Increased Concentration

Focus is another important cognitive skill which is adapted by bingo players, who need to pay attention to hear the numbers called out and find them on their cards. Short-term memory is developed as a bingo player works to retain information quickly for when it is needed next. Mental agility and cognitive decline are slowed among older adults as short-term memory improves with regular play.

Gaming also can be a good form of socialisation. Just being with others – playing in-person or online with friends – supports social interactions and provides a space in which people relax and have fun together, which helps to lower stress levels, raise moods, and improve immune systems.

And wait one more second for another card-related health advantage to bingo – as marking off numbers on a card can improve hand-eye coordination in the elderly. Some of these folks wouldn’t have needed stairlifts, or a home lift or wheelchair access being installed thanks to the boost in hand/eye coordination. It’s all rather impressive when you think about a game that you can play if you are mobile or if you are not.

Reduced Anxiety

Bingo’s invigorating quality helps to maintain brain function by keeping players aware of which numbers are called out and which ones need to be marked off. Maintaining this mental alertness could also reduce the incidence of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease among players.

Playing games fosters collaboration, too, and that builds relationships and causes the release of endorphins that lower stress and strengthen immune systems.

Although socialising has become more difficult due to the coronavirus pandemic, bingo continues to offer a useful outlet as it has been shown to be of benefit to the elderly who maintain some social contacts and are less likely to suffer physical and mental decline with age.

Increased Mobility

Bingo entail marking numbers on a card, and it is the hand-eye coordination which, if you are living on your own, can reduce your fall risk. Bingo provides socialisation – which reduced depression and loneliness.

Research shows that continued physical activity of any kind slows the mental and physical deterioration that often besets seniors. Bingo is a cheap way to nurture new friendships while strengthening established ones.

Most importantly of all, however, bingo is fun. Laughter releases endorphins that help put a person in a better mood, relieve stress, and boost immune systems that might help cut down on hospital stays or speed recovery after an illness or injury. Bingo is also a relatively inexpensive activity that can easily be found in a senior centre, an assisted living community, or in a church in almost any town, and online bingo is now just as accessible as computerised play, allowing seniors a game without having to leave home.