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Boomers are gamers, too!


June 19, 2007 When the news broke that playing video games helps keep senior citizens' minds alert and crackling, it was a big day for game-loving boomers. The result is a fairly new -- but growing -- video game market sector marked by its graying demographic. "Probably not," says Dr. Deborah Barnes, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

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