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Senior Odyssey
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Modeled after the Odyssey of the Mind program, Senior Odyssey is a community-based program in which adults over 60 are engaged in creative problem solving activities within teams of 5 to 7 people over a 20-week period. Activities include fast-paced "spontaneous problems," as well as the formulation and testing of solutions for "long-term problems." This program provides an avenue for intellectual engagement, exercising such key abilities as speed of processing, working memory, inductive reasoning, divergent thinking, and collaborative problem solving. We are examining the benefits of this program on cognition and well-being.

Learn more about Senior Odyssey at the Adult Learning Lab.



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