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Dance to Health: Evaluation of the Pilot Programme

Dance to Health: Evaluation of the Pilot Programme
Aesop Arts Enterprise with a Social Purpose, Oxford. 2017


Project ID (Internal) 6
Project Status completed
Full Reference (text) Aesop (2017) Dance to Health: evaluation of the pilot programme. Aesop Report. [The report can be accessed here]
Full Reference (URL) http://www.artshealthresources.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017-Aesop-Dance-to-Health-evaluation.pdf
Summary / Abstract

Outlines the results of Aesop’s falls prevention dance programme for older people, Dance to Health. This arts based intervention address older people’s falls and problems with some current falls prevention exercise programmes, by incorporating evidence-based exercise programmes into creative, social and engaging dance activity. The programme was developed using the Aesop 7-item checklist, which lists the features an arts programme should have for it to be taken up by the health system and made available to every patient who could benefit. The report outlines the rationale for creating the programme, the outcomes achieved – in addition to reduced falls, cost effectiveness, and the wider impact of the programme. It reports that the pilot successfully brought people from the worlds of dance and older people’s exercise together, was able to train dance artists in the evidence-based falls programme, and also developed six evidence-based falls prevention programmes with 196 participants. A total of 73 per cent of participants achieved the target of 50 hours’ attendance over the six months, compared with a national average for completing standard falls prevention exercise programmes of 31 per cent for primary prevention and 46 per cent for secondary prevention. Additional outcomes identified included increases in group identification, relationships and reduced loneliness, functional health and wellbeing, and mental health and wellbeing

Publication Title Dance to Health: Evaluation of the Pilot Programme
Author(s) Aesop
Publication Details Arts Enterprise with a Social Purpose, Oxford.
Publication Year / End of Project 2017
Last Accessed 03/01/2019 12:00 am

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