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Circle dance: integrative and complementary practice in the daily health promotion for older adults

Danza circular: práctica integradora y complementaria en el cotidiano de la promoción de la salud del anciano

ABSTRACT

Objectives:

to understand circle dance as an integrative and complementary practice for health promotion in older adults’ daily lives.

Methods:

an interpretive, qualitative study, based on Michel Maffesoli’s Comprehensive Sociology of Everyday Life. There were 20 participants, 17 older adults and three focalizers in circles held in Basic Health Units in a municipality in southern Brazil. Data were collected through interviews and observation, between September 2016 and March 2017, and analyzed through preliminary analysis, ordering, key links, coding and categorization.

Results:

three categories emerged that express the daily life of circle dance with older adults: circles that spin; challenges for new circles to spin; entering, being and staying in the circle.

Final Considerations:

circle dance provided older adults with a feeling of belonging to a group, combined with pleasure and well-being, contributing to promotion of older adults’ health.

Descriptors:
Complementary Therapies; Health Promotion; Nursing; Elderly; Activities of Daily Living.

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