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In 2017, with the support of TrygFonden, the Parkinson's Association was able to launch the country's comprehensive project Dance with Parkinson's. The project, which was to run for a three-year project period, aimed to increase the quality of life, self-esteem and health among people with Parkinson's Disease and their relatives. The goal of the project was to bring the country's Parkinson's families together in a joint project centered around dance training, music and the joy of life. This was to be done by training dance instructors who could get help to set up dance teams throughout Denmark and hold dance lessons for Parkinson's sufferers and their relatives. The project was launched with the hope that many of the dance teams would be so well established that they could continue after the end of the project.
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Themes: Culture and...
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Results, benefits, impact and lessons learnt
Improve the lives of people with Parkinson and their relatives. Specifically, the results from the evaluation showed that the participants are very positive about the dance lessons. A large part of the participants have also experienced getting better physically, but especially many have experienced positive mental effects of the dance lessons.
• 98% of the participants generally think that the dance lessons have been good or really good
• 92% think that the level of dance instruction has been appropriate
• 77% think that their body feels better or much better after the dance instruction
• 52% experience better or much better gait after the dance lesson
• 49% experience better or much better balance after the dance lesson
• 37% of the participants who have previously been afraid of falling as a result of their illness, experience being less or much less afraid of falling after dance lessons
• 87% experience feeling better or much better mentally after dance lessons
• 97% believe that dance lessons will positively affect their quality of life.