Large Vinyl Roll-up Checkerboard and Checkers

$32.95

Purchase Large Vinyl Roll-up Checkerboard and Checkers

NEW! Large Vinyl Roll-up Checkerboard & Checkers
This jumbo black and red checker board measures 20" x 20" and is vinyl, so it can be wiped down, rolled up and put away. The large 1-3/4" diameter checkers are carved wood, colors: Ivory and Dark Brown.

Checkers

Checkers is a universal game, familiar to almost everyone - from 9 to 90. It’s a social and intuitive game that meets with success and failure, triumph and defeat - it just depends upon the moment, but socialization and fun, all the while. Two seniors can play, a visitor and a senior, or a child and his/her grandpa. Checkers is a wonderful game with many benefits.

Among the benefits of this checkers game is that the board is vinyl and easily washed. You can even use it as a place mat if you wish, but if anything spills on it or it sits in water, it won’t suffer in the least. This is also valuable when infection or transmission of colds, etc., are a concern – just wipe it down and set up the next game. The board is large, the pieces are oversize and the colors are the traditional and familiar red and black.

In 1973 I walked into Darcy Hall Nursing Home in Palm Beach, FL, and was immediately invited to play a game of checkers with a gentleman there. A few minutes later, Freddy, a 76 year-old man, who would go in and out of catatonic states, begged to play too. I told Freddy that as soon as I finished playing with Bob I’d challenge him to a game. That was our first game. I saw Freddy every Wednesday thereafter. Our last game came in 1976, when Freddy died, three years later.

At the Alzheimer’s Community Care Daycare Center in Riviera Beach, FL, there is a gentleman (Joe) who suffered traumatic brain injury. Despite his shortcomings due to his injury, he presents a daunting opposition on the other side of a checkers board. I have never beaten Joe, but it has not been for lack of trying. On my last visit I told Joe that one of these days I was going to beat him. His response, "If I’m having a bad day."

Do not underestimate the value of a good checkers game, or dominoes for that matter! Needless to say, for nursing homes and daycare centers, it's a great icebreaker for visitors and families.

Mark Warner

Gerontologist

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