The graceful movements of dance offer seniors a unique opportunity to enhance their stability. Regular participation in dance classes helps older adults maintain and improve their balance—a critical ...

Senior Marina Shubin couldn’t stay for last week’s dance class but she popped in to assure her friends she would be back the following week. But before dashing off for an appointment, she explained ...

Marcelle Thomas says it took a little convincing to get her husband to take dance therapy classes at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens with her. Now that she’s got him in the dance studio, she says he hasn ...

When Maria started experiencing memory lapses at 73, her doctor suggested medications and puzzles. Instead, she joined a weekly dance class. Six months later, her cognitive assessments showed ...

They aren’t your average performing dance group. What started a few years ago as a fun Pilates and dance class for a group of seniors living at Oliver Lodge has been delighting Saskatoon crowds ever ...

Carol Scherban points her fuchsia shoes to one side and slides her arm down the wooden dance bar. "It just brings back my youth and just keeps the child in me I guess," explains the 73-year-old during ...

Torontonian, mother, fitness expert, dancer, author. These are just a few of the ways you could describe Sarah Robichaud, who also happens to be the founder and executive director of a registered ...

Ali Ptolemy said it wasn’t the 30-pound weight loss that made her doctor look suspicious. It was the sudden decrease in her blood pressure. Ali Ptolemy said it wasn’t the 30-pound weight loss that ...

Dancing is proving beneficial for seniors Footloose seniors are helping Calgary researchers understand the physical, social and mental upside to dancing.

Zumba-dancing seniors proved to Grade 6 students Monday they can still bust a move to kick off Seniors’ Week in Alberta. Sage Seniors Association challenged 25 students from St. Philip Catholic ...

Residents of the Alderwood Retirement Centre in Witless Bay, N.L., shimmy and shake in a YouTube video aimed at persuading the provincial government to loosen its COVID-19 dancing restrictions in care ...