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Dancing With Dementia: Exploring the Embodied Dimensions of Creativity and Social Engagement.

Pia KontosAlisa GrigorovichAn KosurkoRachel J BarRachel V HerronVerena H MenecMark W Skinner
Published in: The Gerontologist (2021)
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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