Study of physical rehabilitation of the elderly with the help of dance and movement therapy
The article deals with the current direction in the development of physical rehabilitation - dance therapy for the elderly. In boarding houses and health resorts, the health maintenance program includes tanceterology for the elderly. It is on the example of dancing that you can see the system of controlling the movements of the human body. In old age, it has its own characteristics of motor activity. At a practical lesson on the academic subject «Biomechanics of motor activity», students were offered a method for evaluating dance-motor movements on the example of the waltz. In the process of conducting a scientific and applied study, it was found that waltzing improves balance, coordination and the work of the respiratory organs, accelerates walking, makes people more collected and attentive. The proposed methodology can be used not only in classes on the subject of «Biomechanics of motor activity», but also during the internship for working with the elderly in special institutions, as well as working in the profession of a rehabilitologist in the field of physical culture. This scientific research can be continued in order not only to preserve motor activity, as a way to motivate it with an improvement in the psycho-emotional background, but from the point of view of biomechanics to see the possibilities of preserving motor memory. Non-preservation of motor memory leads to various disorders of nervous activity and, in particular, Alzheimer’s disease.