Impact of Dance on ageing from several perspectives

Ulrike Liebert

Ulrike Liebert

Speaker

Ulrike Liebert is located in Zurich Switzerland Originally she is from Germany. She has studied to become a teacher (sports, art, music and religion) and has a Master of Business and Engineering with focus on ICT. From 1998 til 2016 she worked in multinational companies in industries such as engineering, logistics, pulp and health. In 2016 she founded her own firm which is focusing on digital literacy in the 1st and 3rd phases of life. This goes with an interdiciplinary and intergenerational aproach.

Francesca Genovese

Francesca Genovese

Speaker
Dance has a positive impact on aging and is promising in terms of dementia prevention. The program “SILVERSTARS” offers elderlies 2 ties per week an activity which is linked to the topic of dance. This means once per week, older persons are training at home guided by a video. The second week-activity is either linked to a physical dance training or a visit of a rehearsal (professional dancers of e.g. Opera Zurich) or a training on the robotic personal trainer of ddrobotec where the exergame is linked to dance. Per month participants are following one piece which is actual running at a cultural house such as e.g. Opera of Zurich. The piece defines the choreo of the trainings in that month. During the visit of the rehearsal, elderlies have an exchange with the professional dancers. The training on the robotic personal trainer measures several biomarkers which can show the impact of the program “Silverstars” and does part of diagnostics and predictive nursing. Besides the hard facts which come from the robotic personal trainer which has a AI component other objectives such as social and cultural participation is included.