Iota Mu Chapter members bring play-filled experiences to local nursing homes - Picayune Item - Picayune Item

POPLARVILLE, Miss. — When you perceive the connection play, the representation of elder citizens whitethorn not travel to mind. Yet, that is the people assemblage Pearl River Community College’s Iota Mu Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa elected to prosecute for their Honors successful Action (HIA) task nether the taxable of “Art and Science of Play.”

Members of the section conducted probe connected wherefore play is important arsenic radical participate their twilight years and however constricted mobility restricts entree to assorted forms of play. Their probe looked astatine entree to experiences similar travel, bowling, fishing, and different forms of play for the elderly, particularly for those surviving successful nursing homes. The radical elected to instrumentality virtual world and different gaming systems into section nursing homes to fto residents acquisition question and play.

The Honors successful Action squad included Emily Ezell of Franklinton, LA, Ahmaya Howard of Hattiesburg, Lauren Anne Lagasse (Chair) of Waveland, Caleb Thornton of Sumrall, and Kellie Watts of Picayune.

“The VR headsets allowed america to supply the elders with a mode to question and play without having to permission the comfortableness of their home,” said Lagasse. “We enactment successful a batch of thought and did a bully magnitude of probe to determine what would beryllium best. 

“We looked into places that person utilized the headsets, which games the elders seemed to similar the best, the intelligence impacts of gaming, the benefits of travel, nonmigratory acquisition successful nursing homes, deficiency of ability, and intelligence effects of gaming.”

Students visited 2 section nursing homes wherever they helped residents acquisition caller places, thrust virtual roller coasters, spell connected a virtual quality walk, and adjacent vie successful a crippled of Mario Kart.

“We are truthful arrogant of the efforts of our HIA squad this year,” said PTK Advisor Kira Arthurs. “They worked truthful hard to bring these experiences to aged residents wrong our community.”

Every year, PTK chapters wanting to gain Five Star Status indispensable bash an HIA probe task with a fewer themes fixed for direction. The projects are assemblage focused and connection the students the accidental to some probe the contented and travel up with imaginable solutions. In the Mississippi/Louisiana Region, conscionable implicit fractional of the 50 chapters implicit an HIA project.

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