ArticleThe Gerontologist2021
Dancing With Dementia: Exploring the Embodied Dimensions of Creativity and Social Engagement.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The impact of dance on the mental health of older adults: a network meta-analysis of anxiety, depression, and well-being.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
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- Anishinaabe healthy brain aging: traditional knowledge teachings represented in works of art.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- Social prescribing for people living with long-term health conditions: a scoping review.Systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Gender Differences for the Associations among Housework, Self-Stigma, and Psychiatric Symptoms among Community Severe Mental Disorder Patients.International journal of general medicine · 2025Article
- Embodied leisure experiences of nature-based activities for people living with dementia.Dementia (London, England) · 2024Article
- Optimizing Older Adult Mental Health in Support of Healthy Ageing: A Pluralistic Framework to Inform Transformative Change across Community and Healthcare Domains.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- Technology-Enabled Recreation and Leisure Programs and Activities for Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment: Rapid Scoping Review.JMIR neurotechnology · 2024Review
- "Live Gerontology": Understanding and Representing Aging, Loneliness, and Long-Term Care Through Science and Art.The Gerontologist · 2023Article
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- Embracing Complexity Within Creative Approaches to Dementia Research: Ethics, Reflexivity, and Research Practices.International journal of qualitative methods · 2023Article
- Understanding Capacity and Optimizing Meaningful Engagement among Persons Living with Dementia.Dementia (London, England) · 2023Article
- The embodied mind in motion: a neuroscientific and philosophical perspective on prevention and therapy of dementia.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Virtual collaborative creative engagement in a pandemic world: creative connection for older adults with lived experience of dementia.Frontiers in health services · 2023Article
- An integrative approach to dementia care.Frontiers in aging · 2023Review
- Senior Women's Dance: From Pleasure to Emancipation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Development of GERAS DANcing for Cognition and Exercise (DANCE): a feasibility study.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesDance is increasingly being implemented in residential long-term care to improve health and function. However, little research has explored the potential of dance to enhance social inclusion by supporting embodied self-expression, creativity, and social engagement of persons living with dementia and their families. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsThis was a qualitative sequential multiphase study of Sharing Dance Seniors, a dance program that includes a suite of remotely streamed dance sessions that are delivered weekly to participants in long-term care and community settings. Our analysis focused on the participation of 67 persons living with dementia and 15 family carers in residential long-term care homes in Manitoba, Canada. Data included participant observation, video recordings, focus groups, and interviews; all data were analyzed thematically.
resultsWe identified 2 themes: playfulness and sociability. Playfulness refers to the ways that the participants let go of what is "real" and became immersed in the narrative of a particular dance, often adding their own style. Sociability captures the ways in which the narrative approach of the Sharing Dance Seniors program encourages connectivity/intersubjectivity between participants and their community; participants co-constructed and collaboratively animated the narrative of the dances. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Our findings highlight the playful and imaginative nature of how persons living with dementia engage with dance and demonstrate how this has the potential to challenge the stigma associated with dementia and support social inclusion. This underscores the urgent need to make dance programs such as Sharing Dance Seniors more widely accessible to persons living with dementia everywhere.
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