Although VR can save time for family members to do their everyday chores by entertaining seniors individually, it is beneficial to them altogether. They all can enjoy the VR apps. These are some benefits of VR for family members and friends of seniors VR offers:

• Seniors with their beloved ones can visit and enjoy the places from their pasts or tourist destinations where they wish they could visit in the real world. Actually, they can travel with each other. These exciting experiences can give the elderly the motivation for rehabilitation and improve their quality of life. It can help ease their anxiety, dementia, and loneliness.

• VR allows seniors to see their future home beforehand:

Moving is a major life decision at any age, and it is even more significant for retirees. Since going out and visiting apartments are difficult for the elderly, VR offers this experience to seniors and their family members. It allows them to envision themselves in their potential new home and make their decision with the assistance of their beloved. Seeing their homes beforehand gives seniors peace of mind, mitigating anxiety, eliminating the fear of change, and lending a memorable and impactful experience that helps the brain make a better decision.

• VR can help tackle social isolation. Studies have declared that social isolation and loneliness are worse for health than obesity or smoking, especially if you are over 50. The risks of prolonged isolation are equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. VR focuses on family and social connections and bridges the physical distance between family members. It empowers people to experiences new places and do different activities which they wouldn’t be able to do because of cost, time, or mobility constraints. Also, family members and friends can traverse a home with an elderly parent living alone. Within experiencing VR apps seniors can create unforgettable stories that they can share with their beloved and friends. Family members can listen to the elderly, their wishes, preferences, and stories. It will enhance the mental and also physical stability of seniors. Consider a family that lives halfway across the world wanting to share their Thanksgiving dinner or a child’s birthday party with an elderly loved one who is not able to leave the retirement home that they live in. the family could simply use a camera to record the birthday party or other event from the “perspective” of that housebound loved one and then translated into a virtual reality. It makes them feel as if they were there in real life.

• VR can boost senior citizens’ physical health by offering a wide range of games that can be accompanied by family members and friends. It can improve their motivation and increase their level of physical activity.

Finally, it is clear that VR technology has many substantial benefits for seniors and family members’ health mentally and physically altogether.