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Memory Game for Seniors - First Heart Translate

Recall the First Heart Transplant in 1967

Starting at $5.99 – $24.99

Let RetroSparX spark your memory of an astounding medical breakthrough in Heart for Heart! Doctors and researchers had for years experimented with heart transplantation techniques, a procedure that seemed so daunting and futuristic that many thought it was impossible. Few would have guessed that a doctor from South Africa would be the first to choreograph this medical miracle. Read about Dr. Christiaan Barnard’s ground-breaking surgery in 1967.

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This RetroSparX Memory Game Unit at a Glance

Subject Category: Historical Events, Science and Technology

Featured Date Range: 1960s

Number of pages to print: 6

Included: memory-stimulating narrative, 2 'heart-warming' memory games, answer key

Completion time: 30-40 minutes (approximate)

Memory Games for Seniors Included in this Unit

RetroSparX Grid Magic activity icon
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Is There a Doctor in the House? (Grid Magic memory game) - Solve clues to identify famous doctors from fiction and history, and a key pledge required of all doctors will be revealed.

Features of Is There a Doctor in the House?

  • 2 pages of rediscovering famous doctors (real and fictional)
  • colourful graphics; large print for easy reading
  • fairly easy to complete
  • can be completed individually, but working collaboratively with a group may be 'just what the doctor ordered!'
  • suitable for seniors with no cognitive decline or with mild dementia
  • answer key is included
See a Grid Magic memory game sample
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Hidden Places in the Body (Hidden Letter memory game) - Find missing letters to complete the names of organs in the human body, and reveal the name of a famous doctor in the process.

Features of Hidden Places in the Body

  • one page of sleuthing out body parts
  • large print for easy solving
  • moderately easy to complete
  • can be completed individually or collaboratively with a group
  • suitable for seniors with no cognitive decline, with mild dementia or (with a bit of support) with moderate dementia
  • answer key is included
See a Hidden Letter memory game sample

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