A Pilot Study of the Acceptability of a Dance Café for People with Severe Dementia
<p><strong>Context:</strong> Dance has been suggested as a way of helping people with advanced dementia, providing meaningful involvement and activity.</p><p><strong>Objectives:</strong> To investigate if individuals with advanced dementia would be able to t...
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| description | <p><strong>Context:</strong> Dance has been suggested as a way of helping people with advanced dementia, providing meaningful involvement and activity.</p><p><strong>Objectives:</strong> To investigate if individuals with advanced dementia would be able to take part in dancing in a Dance Café within a residential home setting and undertake the assessment of nutrition, quality of life, balance and mobility.</p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> A wait-list intervention approach was used, with residents allocated randomly to the intervention or a control group, who received the dance intervention later. A Dance Café was held weekly for 8 weeks, and assessments were made of weight, nutrition, balance, mobility and quality of life. Focus groups were held with staff and family members after the intervention period to assess their opinions.</p><p><strong>Findings:</strong> The regular assessments of nutrition, balance and quality of life were obtained for the residents with dementia, and they were able to join in the Dance Café. No conclusions could be made from the limited quantitative results; in the qualitative assessment, however, the staff and families all felt the participants had benefitted from the Dance Café in terms of improved mobility and positive psychosocial effects.</p><p><strong>Limitations:</strong> The small size of the intervention group prevented any statistical analysis of the quantitative assessments.</p><p><strong>Implications:</strong> It is possible to undertake a Dance Café with people with severe dementia, and assessments of nutrition and mobility can be undertaken. Further research with a larger group would be needed to investigate its effectiveness.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a2dd55ae592246489e009e887c6a198d2023-01-04T15:00:30ZengLSE PressJournal of Long-Term Care2516-91222021-07-010202110.31389/jltc.6758A Pilot Study of the Acceptability of a Dance Café for People with Severe DementiaClara Ajoke Awoyomi0David Oliver1Rachel Forrester-Jones2Medway Community Healthcare, GillinghamTizard Centre, University of Kent, CanterburyProfessor of Social Policy, Head of Department of Social Policy Sciences, Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy, University of Bath<p><strong>Context:</strong> Dance has been suggested as a way of helping people with advanced dementia, providing meaningful involvement and activity.</p><p><strong>Objectives:</strong> To investigate if individuals with advanced dementia would be able to take part in dancing in a Dance Café within a residential home setting and undertake the assessment of nutrition, quality of life, balance and mobility.</p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> A wait-list intervention approach was used, with residents allocated randomly to the intervention or a control group, who received the dance intervention later. A Dance Café was held weekly for 8 weeks, and assessments were made of weight, nutrition, balance, mobility and quality of life. Focus groups were held with staff and family members after the intervention period to assess their opinions.</p><p><strong>Findings:</strong> The regular assessments of nutrition, balance and quality of life were obtained for the residents with dementia, and they were able to join in the Dance Café. No conclusions could be made from the limited quantitative results; in the qualitative assessment, however, the staff and families all felt the participants had benefitted from the Dance Café in terms of improved mobility and positive psychosocial effects.</p><p><strong>Limitations:</strong> The small size of the intervention group prevented any statistical analysis of the quantitative assessments.</p><p><strong>Implications:</strong> It is possible to undertake a Dance Café with people with severe dementia, and assessments of nutrition and mobility can be undertaken. Further research with a larger group would be needed to investigate its effectiveness.</p>https://journal.ilpnetwork.org/articles/67advanced dementiaresidential homedancemusicdance caféacceptability |
| spellingShingle | Clara Ajoke Awoyomi David Oliver Rachel Forrester-Jones A Pilot Study of the Acceptability of a Dance Café for People with Severe Dementia Journal of Long-Term Care advanced dementia residential home dance music dance café acceptability |
| title | A Pilot Study of the Acceptability of a Dance Café for People with Severe Dementia |
| title_full | A Pilot Study of the Acceptability of a Dance Café for People with Severe Dementia |
| title_fullStr | A Pilot Study of the Acceptability of a Dance Café for People with Severe Dementia |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Pilot Study of the Acceptability of a Dance Café for People with Severe Dementia |
| title_short | A Pilot Study of the Acceptability of a Dance Café for People with Severe Dementia |
| title_sort | pilot study of the acceptability of a dance cafe for people with severe dementia |
| topic | advanced dementia residential home dance music dance café acceptability |
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