Effects of dance on the postural balance, cognition and functional autonomy of older adults

• Autor(a) principal: Borges,Eliane Gomes da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Vale,Rodrigo Gomes de Souza, Pernambuco,Carlos Soares, Cader,Samaria Ali, Sá,Selma Pedra Chaves, Pinto,Francisco Miguel, Regazzi,Isabel Cristina Ribeiro, Knupp,Virginia Maria de Azevedo Oliveira, Dantas,Estélio Henrique Martin
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672018001102302
• topic: Dance; Older Adults; Cognition; Postural Balance; Clinical Study

ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the postural balance, cognition and functional autonomy of older adults with dementia, who are long-stay inpatients, subjected to ballroom dancing. Method: simple randomized clinical study. Older adult sample: control group (30) and experimental group (30). The groups were subjected to the protocol of functional autonomy for activities of daily living; to the assessment of cognition (mini-mental state examination); and to the analysis of postural balance (stabilometric and postural platforms). The analysis of variance with repeated measures for group and time factors, and Scheffé’s post hoc test were used, with significance of p < 0.05. Results: For the mini-mental state examination, the control group presented a 24.27 mean, and the experimental 22.75. Functional autonomy for activities of daily living – experimental: 54.47 ± 7.24 (p < 0.0001) x control: 61.77 ± 8.47 (p = 0.011). Postural balance – experimental: X = 3.16 ± 3.44 (p = 0.02) x control = X = 6.30 ± 7.62 (p = 0.04). Conclusion: Ballroom dancing can be recommended for older adults to provide improvement in their balance and motor performance of the activities of daily living.