I recently read a study on a number of elderly people, divided into small groups. You had to learn something new in a defined period of time. Drawing, painting, playing golf…

The best result was seen in the dance group and the reason was that the group had to learn a new dance every week: tango, samba, rumba, paso doble, cha-cha-cha etc…

The dance group learned a new dance step every week and this improved cognitive skills more quickly than the other groups.

Thank you, this is great. Where can I access the data? Paul Salme

Yolanda I can't find the article I mentioned. I'm sending to you a reference on dancing and cognition: Effects of Dancing on Cognition in Healthy Older Adults: a Systematic Review

David Predovan,1,2,3 Anne Julien,1,4 Alida Esmail,5 and Louis Bherer1,3,4,6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7061925/

Hi Paul,

Thank you kindly

Yolanda,

Search on Google : Effects of Dancing on Cognition in Healthy Older Adults.

You will get some papers that will guide you in your research.

How does dance effect cognitive development?

Other studies show that dance helps reduce stress, increases levels of the feel-good hormone serotonin, and helps develop new neural connections, especially in regions involved in executive function, long-term memory, and spatial recognition.

Go to Google Scholar (more academic) and ask your questions.