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Circle dance: integrative and complementary practice in the daily health promotion for older adults
Kelly Maciel da Silva1, Rosane Gonçalves Nitschke2, Michelle Kuntz Durand2
1Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Florianópolis. Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Objectives:
to understand circle dance as an integrative and complementary practice for health promotion in older adults' daily lives.
Methods:
an interpretive, qualitative study, based on Michel Maffesoli's Comprehensive Sociology of Everyday Life. There were 20 participants, 17 older adults and three focalizers in circles held in Basic Health Units in a municipality in southern Brazil. Data were collected through interviews and observation, between September 2016 and March 2017, and analyzed through preliminary analysis, ordering, key links, coding and categorization.
Results:
three categories emerged that express the daily life of circle dance with older adults: circles that spin; challenges for new circles to spin; entering, being and staying in the circle.
Final Considerations:
circle dance provided older adults with a feeling of belonging to a group, combined with pleasure and well-being, contributing to promotion of older adults' health.
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