摘要：Objective. Dementia is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease, which produces a gradual alteration inboth intellectual and emotional systems, starting from the tendency to lose recent memory, to total immobility, inthe later stages. Over time, dementia brings the human body into total deterioration: cognitive, behavioral andfunctional. Our aim was to demonstrate the beneficial outcomes of the dance movement therapy in dementiapatients for cognitive and emotional states.Methods. Our method consisted in assessing 4 sessions of dance movement therapy every week for 6months. Patients with dementia were initially reluctant to this new non-drug therapy, but after the initial sessions,the group of 7 patients became uniform. We performed the Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale, TheGeriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Abbreviated Mental Test, Quality of life (QOL) and Bristol Activities ofDaily Living Scale.Results. Improvements have shown after the six months of dance movement therapy, mostly in the qualityof life, emotional state and behavioral areas. The patients became more eager to come to sessions and their moodhave changed, according to their caregivers.Conclusions. Based on the results obtained after performing the 6 months dance movement therapy indementia patient, we can conclude that the application of physical-cognitive therapy in older adults withdementia, is prone to generate important beneficial clinical changes, therefore, it can be acknowledged as a non-pharmacological tool that has effects potential in the short term.
