The impact of the dance intervention on motor abilities in the elderly

SKOTÁKOVÁ, Alena, Jana SKLENAŘÍKOVÁ, Lenka SVOBODOVÁ, Pavlína VACULÍKOVÁ and Roman GRMELA. The impact of the dance intervention on motor abilities in the elderly. In Health across lifespan. 2018.

Basic information

• Original name: The impact of the dance intervention on motor abilities in the elderly
• Authors: SKOTÁKOVÁ, Alena (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Jana SKLENAŘÍKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Lenka SVOBODOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Pavlína VACULÍKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Roman GRMELA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Health across lifespan, 2018.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Conference abstract
• Field of Study: 30306 Sport and fitness sciences
• Country of publisher: Germany
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14510/18:00106975
• Organization unit: Faculty of Sports Studies
• Keywords in English: mild cognitive impairment;healthy elderly;motor abilities
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact

Abstract

Physical activity has undoubtedly a lot of physical and mental health outcomes. Dance has the big potential to be an attractive physical activity. Also it can be adjusted to meet the needs of the elderly. The aim of this study is to find out the impact of the dance intervention to chosen motor abilities in the healthy elderly (HE) and the elderly with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).Dance intervention program had a positive effect on the level of aerobic endurance and lower-body strength when MCI respondents improved to the same level as a healthy group. Dancing program had no impact on the level of dynamic balance and agility.Although the differences in the measured group of respondents are statically insignificant we still see an improvement in the level of motor skills. For the monitored group of elderly even small progress is considered to be a good result. However, we can´t ignore the unsupervised parameters, especially the changes in the social perception and behavior of the participants in the experimental group. We can discuss how social interaction established during the intervention program can affect the quality of life in seniors.

Links

• NV15-33854A, research and development project: Name: Efekt intenzivní tanečně-pohybové intervence na kognitivní funkce a změny mozkové plasticity zdravých seniorů a pacientů s mírnou kognitivní poruchou