How playgrounds keep the old young

Roger Boyes reports on the first playground for pensioners in Germany, which is part of a social experiment to make elderly people more agile both physically and mentally. 

Gerold Kolb, the former head of the German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics and a supporter of the scheme says: “The combination of mental and physical activity can delay the onset of senile dementia.”

(Times, p41, Roger Boyes, ½ page)