Play on: Serious Games for Elderly Citizens

Sabine Wildevuur (Waag Society)Jacco van Uden (STT)

Games for Health EuropeAmsterdam, October 24-25, 2011

WWW.SERIOUSGAMES.TV

SERIOUS GAMES for

SENIOR CITIZENS

- Catching up quickly- Avid players- Rise of Health Games- Healthy Ageing

• Physical• Mental• Social

GAMES AND SENIOR CITIZENS: GENERAL OBSERVATIONS (1)

- ‘More than a old person’

- Games can serve as stepping stone (self-efficacy)

- ‘Non-social’ games serve important social functions

GAMES AND SENIOR CITIZENS: TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES (1)

- Increasing familiarity with games (as medium)

- Better, more intuitive interfaces

GAMES AND SENIOR CITIZENS: TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES (2)

- Gamification: applying succesful game practices to everyday life

- Invisible exercising / gaming

- Concept driven

- Better use of existinginfrastructures

Serious gaming forSOCIAL WELLBEING

FORESIGHT

about THE NEXT GENERATION SENIOR CITIZENS 2025

82,7 TO 87,4

78,8 TO 84,5

PROF. GIERVELD ‘CONVOY’

OF LIFE

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CONNECTEDNESSTHROUGH GAMING?

INTERGENERATIONAL

PLAY ON: TAKE AWAY

Download report Play On! (Dutch): http://www.stt.nl/Jacco van Uden (STT), email: vanuden@stt.nlSabine Wildevuur (Waag Society), email: sabine@waag.org

MENTALWELLBEING

Use it or you lose it?

“Not being physically active is disastrous for the brain.”(Laura Eggermont)