Dance to Health - the national falls prevention dance programme

我们都知道艺术的力量，感动，激励，甚至改变我们的生活。让你兴奋起来跳舞的音乐让你哭的电影这首诗感觉它直接对你说话。和伟大的文化场合，如格拉斯顿伯里，它永远留在你身边。你会期望其他部门，如健康，已经利用这种力量。但是，卫生部门还没有一个以艺术为基础的方案，它有证据证明是有效的和具有成本效益的，并且可以为所有需要它的人提供。它的总体愿景是“一个未来，当艺术解决社会问题的价值和提供给所有需要他们的人”。第一个艺术解决方案被称为舞蹈健康。它解决了老年人的福尔斯的主要健康问题。这是65岁及以上人群中最常见和最严重的事故类型。他们每年花费NHS 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。福尔斯跌倒的风险随着社会贫困和年龄的增长而增加。英国国民健康服务体系目前的解决方案是一个为期26周的福尔斯预防锻炼计划，但研究人员得出结论，这些计划“枯燥乏味”，提供的服务参差不齐，对所需锻炼的忠诚度很差，完成率很低，如果没有持续的维护计划，力量和平衡的改善在12个月内就消失了--但这些计划很少见。健康舞蹈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和具有成本效益的手段”。它将这些练习融入到创造性的、社交性的和有趣的舞蹈活动中，并创建了提供持续维护计划的当地团体。为适应新冠肺炎疫情，舞蹈健康为宽带网络不畅的地区开发了Zoom课程和DVD。2019年开始向卫生部门销售。他们每年都翻一番。这份创新英国合同将使Aesop能够做四件事来实现Aesop的愿景--让所有需要它的人都能享受到“健康之舞”：为持续的维护计划开发一个可扩展的模型，并为当地志愿者提供培训计划;为护理院开发负担得起的服务;检验关于在预防福尔斯跌倒的研究、政策和方案中缺少老年人声音的假设，如果得到证实，就如何解决这一问题提出建议;并培养专业舞蹈艺术家的队伍，他们提供舞蹈健康课程。

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.