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Here Wii Go...Seniors Rolling Along With Popular Gaming System

Date Added: 25-03-2008

Holiday Retirement rolls out Nintendo Wiis to 25 of its independent-living senior communities.

(NAPSI)-Although video games are usually enjoyed by their grandchildren and great-grandchildren, a number of seniors are finding that a popular gaming system is right up their alley.

Retirement communities and senior centers across the country are seeing very promising results with this kind of digital entertainment as seniors dive in with a sense of fun and joy some haven't experienced in years.

For example, Oregon-based Holiday Retirement began rolling out Nintendo Wiis to 25 of its independent-living senior communities as part of a pilot program in November 2007, with an ultimate eye toward phasing it into all of Holiday's 300-plus communities throughout the U.S. and Canada.

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