Dance to Health - the national falls prevention dance programme

舞出健康——全国预防跌倒舞蹈计划

• 批准号: 10053493
• 金额: $ 41.8万
• 依托单位: AESOP ARTS AND SOCIETY LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10053493
• 关键词: Dance; Health; national; falls; prevention

We all know the arts' power to move, inspire and even transform our lives. The music track that gets you up and dancing. The film that makes you cry. The poem that feels it speaks direct to you. And great cultural occasions, such as Glastonbury, which stay with you forever.You would expect other sectors such as health to have harnessed this power. But there is no arts-based programme for the health sector which has evidence of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness and is available for all who need it.Aesop Arts and Society exists to make the breakthrough. Its overall vision is 'A future when arts solutions for society's problems are valued and available for all who need them'. The first arts solution is called Dance to Health. It addresses the major health problem of older people's falls. They are the most frequent and serious type of accident in people aged 65 and over. They cost the NHS £2.3 billion a year. They reduce confidence to do daily activities, lead to loneliness, and threaten independence. The risk of falls increases with social deprivation and age.The NHS's current solution is a 26-week falls prevention exercise programme, but researchers have concluded these are 'dull', provision is patchy, fidelity to required exercises is poor, completion rates are low and, without ongoing maintenance programmes, the improvements in strength and balance are lost in 12 months -- yet these programmes are rare. Dance to Health solves all these problems. A Sheffield Hallam University evaluation concluded Dance to Health is 'an effective and cost-effective means to address older people's falls'. It smuggles the exercises into creative, sociable and fun dance activity and has created local groups which offer ongoing maintenance programmes. Dance to Health adapted to the Covid pandemic by developing Zoom classes and DVDs for areas with poor broadband. These continue.Sales to the health sector began in 2019. They have been doubling every year. This Innovate UK contract will enable Aesop to do four things to realise Aesop's vision -- that Dance to Health is available to all who need it: develop a scalable model for ongoing maintenance programmes and a training programme for local volunteers to deliver this; develop an affordable service for care homes; test the hypothesis that the voice of older people in falls prevention research, policy and programmes is missing, and if confirmed makerecommendations for addressing this failure; and grow the workforce of professional dance artists who deliver Dance to Health sessions.

我们都知道艺术的力量可以感动、鼓舞甚至改变我们的生活。让你站起来跳舞的音乐。让你流泪的电影。这首诗感觉它直接对你说话。还有伟大的文化场合，比如格拉斯顿伯里音乐节，它们会永远留在你身边。你可能会认为，卫生等其他部门已经利用了这种力量。但是，卫生部门没有一个以艺术为基础的方案，有证据表明其有效性和成本效益，并可供所有需要的人使用。伊索艺术与社会的存在就是为了取得突破。它的总体愿景是“未来社会问题的艺术解决方案受到重视，并为所有需要它们的人提供”。第一个艺术解决方案被称为“舞蹈健康”。它解决了老年人跌倒的主要健康问题。它们是65岁及以上人群中最常见和最严重的事故类型。NHS每年为此花费23亿英镑。他们降低了做日常活动的信心，导致孤独，并威胁到独立性。跌倒的风险随着社会剥夺和年龄的增长而增加。NHS目前的解决方案是为期26周的预防跌倒运动计划，但研究人员得出结论，这些计划“枯燥”，提供不完整，对要求的锻炼的忠实度很低，完成率很低，而且如果没有持续的维护计划，力量和平衡的改善在12个月内就会消失——但这些计划很少。舞蹈健康解决了所有这些问题。谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学的一项评估得出结论，健康舞蹈是“解决老年人跌倒问题的一种有效且具有成本效益的方法”。它将锻炼融入创造性、社交性和有趣的舞蹈活动中，并创建了当地团体，提供持续的维护计划。健康之舞为适应新冠疫情，为宽带条件差的地区开发了Zoom课程和dvd。这些继续。向卫生部门的销售始于2019年。它们每年都在翻倍。“创新英国”合同将使伊索公司能够做四件事来实现伊索的愿景——让所有需要的人都能享受“健康之舞”：为正在进行的维护项目开发一个可扩展的模型，并为当地志愿者提供培训项目；为护理院提供负担得起的服务；检验老年人在预防跌倒研究、政策和规划中缺乏声音的假设，如果得到证实，提出解决这一失败的建议；并增加专业舞蹈艺术家的队伍，他们提供“舞蹈健康”课程。