Oct 15 2008
Seniors Stay Fit with Wii
Seniors are engaging in more sports activities in nursing homes and senior centers. Bowling, baseball and even boxing are all favories, and they’re all on the Wii Nintendo game system. The Wii system came out in November 2006. The sports program also includes tennis and golf.
Players hold a wireless console that detects the player’s movements, as players use the same motions they’d use if they were actually playing the game. When Nintendo came up with the Wii sports program, developers thought it would get children off of the couch to be more active as they played a gaming system, said Anka Dolecki, Nintendo of America’s director of public relations, in an e-mail.
But reaching seniors has turned out to be just as important.