Has verbal expression become difficult and frustrating? Increase your quality of life and that of the people around you with ballroom dancing!

The diverse benefits of ballroom dancing can enhance life for many people including those with dementia. Ballroom dancing provides a natural means of connecting to people, creating opportunities for social interaction, emotional connection and communication without words. (Smith & Roehricht, 2012)

 

Ballroom dancing is a fun way to carry out your weekly exercise and it is known to decrease depression, stress and anxiety. The rhythm, the music, the social interaction will improve your mood. (Akandere & Demir, 2011)

Ballroom dancing combines movement, touch and music, which has been found to assist in “healing from the psychophysical and psychosocial effects of physical trauma and diseases such as cancer, heart disease, neurological impairments”. (Akandere & Demir, 2011)

 

Trick your cognitive decline with ballroom dancing!

 

Your brain will be stimulated through the physical activity of dancing and by continuously learning new dancing steps. Learning and practicing complex dance movements, decision making, maintaining rhythm and remembering dance steps assists in our memory and retrieval skills. (Tempel, Loran, & Frings, 2015)

With ballroom dancing you will enhance your quality of life, improve your psychological well-being and learn to communicate with others in a fun way. So... get your dancing shoes on!

 

References:

Akandere, M., & Demir, B. (2011). The effect of dance over depression. Collegium antropologicum, 35(3), 651-656.

Hamill, M., Smith, L., & Röhricht, F. (2012). ‘Dancing down memory lane’: Circle dancing as a psychotherapeutic intervention in dementia—a pilot study. Dementia, 11(6), 709-724.

Tempel, T., Loran, I., & Frings, C. (2015). Dancing your moves away: How memory retrieval shapes complex motor action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 21(3), 300.