Dance intervention for people with dementia: Lessons learned from a small-sample crossover explorative study

Dance intervention for people with dementia: Lessons learned from a small-sample crossover explorative study

•Dance for people with dementia benefit balance, cognition and quality of life.•This study investigates effects of dance on people with dementia over 12 weekly sessions.•The study followed a crossover experimental design.•Results enabled to develop new postulates on the impact of dance for people wi...

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Published in:The Arts in psychotherapy Vol. 70; p. 101676
Main Authors: Charras, Kevin, Mabire, Jean-Bernard, Bouaziz, Nathalie, Deschamps, Peggy, Froget, Bénédicte, de Malherbe, Adèle, Rosa, Sara, Aquino, Jean-Pierre
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 01-09-2020
Subjects:
Balance
Confidence
Dance
Dementia
Quality of life
Well-being
Dance
Well-being
Confidence
Balance
Dementia
Quality of life
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Summary:•Dance for people with dementia benefit balance, cognition and quality of life.•This study investigates effects of dance on people with dementia over 12 weekly sessions.•The study followed a crossover experimental design.•Results enabled to develop new postulates on the impact of dance for people with dementia. Dance interventions for people with dementia could benefit balance, gait, fall risk, physical activities, cognition, quality of life, social interactions and behavioral and psychological symptoms. This study investigates the impact of dance on balance, confidence, quality of life and well-being of people with dementia. In order to compensate for the lack of control group, our study followed a crossover experimental design: groups were alternately experimental and control. The study consisted in 12 weekly sessions of dance followed by 12 weeks with no dance activity or conversely. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected. Methodological issues, among which experimental design and outcome measures, did not enable to confirm primary hypotheses. However, quantitative and qualitative data collected during the study enabled us to investigate further effects of our intervention. Results enabled to develop new postulates concerning dance interventions for people with dementia and to contribute to the theoretical and clinical corpus of dance interventions for people with dementia.
ISSN:0197-4556
1873-5878
DOI:10.1016/j.aip.2020.101676