In Mature Company | Dance in dementia care homes
In Mature Company takes dance and music into dementia care homes across Leeds, to improve health and wellbeing and reduce loneliness
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About In Mature Company | Dance in dementia care homes
Established in 2018, In Mature Company works with Leeds care homes to deliver weekly creative movement sessions for older residents with dementia.
Our experienced team of dance artists and musicians work in two care homes per year delivering person-centred creative movement sessions. Our online Zoom sessions run each week bringing staff and residents from different care homes together to enjoy a movement experience.
Elaine, Leeds Care home commented: “Residents who would normally not engage or be involved were dancing away to the music and what we noticed was that the residents were interacting with each other too, which was very special and not a normal occurrence.”
Programme Impact
In Mature Company is designed to improve the lives of care home residents who are frail and who may be living with dementia.
The programme uses Dementia Care Mapping to measure the impact of creative sessions on wellbeing, mood, engagement and social connection. We track improvements to participants’ strength and balance (a measure of reduced falls risk) and reduction in the number of hospitals admissions and the amount of time spent asleep during the day. Learn more about our Dementia Care Mapping research.
Learn more about the project in our podcast series Yorkshire Dance Presents: Dancing & Dementia and in our animated series, Dancing the Small Moments.
Supported through a grant from the Masonic Charitable Foundation.