In Mature Company
In Mature Company takes dance and music into dementia care homes across Leeds, to improve physical activity levels and reduce loneliness
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About In Mature Company
Established in 2018, In Mature Company works with Leeds care homes to deliver weekly creative movement sessions for older residents.
Our experienced team of dance artists and musicians respond to resident‘s needs and interests to deliver person-centred creative movement sessions.
Our online Zoom sessions bring staff and residents from different homes together to enjoy a weekly movement experience.
The In Mature Company team support care home staff to develop skills and techniques to introduce creativity within everyday care.
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.
Artist Team
Our Lead Dance artists for 2024: Rachel Clarke, Inari Hulkkonen and Thom Mckeon
Musicians: Ozzy Moysey, Georgie Buchanan and Dave Mitchell
Lead Dance Artists mentor new artists to build a specialism in working with people living with dementia.
Assistant Dance artists: Tara Balfour, Eleni Green and Shauna McSwiney.
Dementia Care Mappers: Will Fletcher and Elizabeth G
Learn more about the project in our podcast series Yorkshire Dance Presents: Dancing & Dementia and in our animated series, Dancing the Small Moments.
Previously funded through Time to Shine, In Mature Company is currently funded by the NHS.
