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| Nurses' opinions, ideas and beliefs about dancing and movement to music in Swedish and Finnish nursing home settings | | Author(s) | Liisa Palo-Bengtsson, Sirkka-Liisa Ekman, Kjerstin Ericsson |
| Journal title | Health Care in Later Life, vol 2, no 2, May 1997 |
| Pages | pp 93-106 |
| Keywords | Dancing ; Dementia ; Nursing homes ; Hospital services ; Nurses ; Social surveys ; Finland ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this study was twofold: to evaluate nurses' opinions of dance activities in nursing practice and to study their ideas and beliefs about the role of dancing and movement to music in the nursing care of older people and as an appropriate activity for people with dementia in nursing home settings. The data were collected from 182 nurses using a questionnaire constructed in Finnish and Swedish. The respondents were recruited from one nursing home and one long-term hospital in Helsinki, Finland, and 13 nursing homes in Stockholm, Sweden. The results showed that nurses in both groups thought that dancing and movement to music, when incorporated into nursing activities, could be beneficial. The findings were, however, paradoxical, given the low frequency of dance activities in practice. Obstacles to the arrangement of dance activities were cited to be lack of time and interest, and training of staff. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980212227 A |
| Classmark | HNA: EA: LHB: LD: QTE: 3F: 76L: 76P |
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