Bringing Dance to Health® to your area

Presentation for ‘Local Partners’

August 2019 (Please get in touch for most recent version)

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Aesop is an arts-based social enterprise and registered charity.

It aims to -

• develop arts solutions based on social needs

• show health, care and other sectors how the arts can work for them

• accelerate the pace of adoption of arts solutions

• develop research and practice networks for arts solutions

Aesop also manages Dance to Health, the Aesop Institute (CPD for health and arts

professionals), the bi-annual National Arts & Health Conference for Health decision-

makers and the Active Ingredients Project (studying how arts programmes actually

achieve their personal and social impact).

See www.ae-sop.org and follow us on Twitter @Aesop_Health to find out more.

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Introducing Aesop

Dance to Health is a nationwide falls prevention dance programme for older people at risk of falls or recovering from a fall.

It combines evidence-based falls prevention principles with the creativity, energy and sociability of dance.

Sessions are led by professional dance artists from leading dance companies who have been fully trained and qualified in falls prevention exercise methods.

The current focus is on Cheshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, South Wales, South Yorkshire and West Midlands.

Dance to Health was devised and is managed by Aesop

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Introducing Dance to Health

A success story

Current £2.1m ‘Phase 1 Roll-out’:

✓ 40 programmes delivered

✓ 1,031 participants and 664 volunteers

✓ Sustainable volunteer-led Local Groups created

✓ Participant transformation can be from a walking frame to two sticks to one to none

✓ More effective and cost-effective than the standard exercise programmes

✓ Potential health and social care system saving of £74.5m a year

✓ Films commissioned by BBC and ITV

✓ Alignment with NHS Long Term Plan

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Watch the Dance to Health promotional video by clicking on the link below –

https://vimeo.com/153916888

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Dance to Health Video

Older people’s falls: ➢ are traumatic for older people and a major

challenge for the health system➢ destroy confidence, increase isolation and reduce

independence➢ cost the NHS £2.3 billion a year

There are well-evidenced falls prevention exercise programmes (‘FaME’ and ‘Otago’) but, as reported in the research literature:

➢ the programmes are ‘dull’ ➢ fidelity of delivery is ‘often poor’ ➢ there is a lack of ongoing programmes to maintain

improvements and, without them, improvements are lost in 12 months

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The Falls Challenge

Our Volunteers

Volunteers are fundamental to the success of the programme:

✓ 4 volunteer types support the programme – Peer Motivator, Dance Support Volunteer, Buddy and Committee Member & Champion

✓ Over 100 volunteers support the sessions every week

✓ Annual value of volunteers to Dance to Health is £81,000 in equivalent paid hours

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Volunteers’ quotes

‘We have a laugh, listen to life stories and get to dance at the same time.’

‘It’s so beneficial to everybody involved. It’s fun, it’s active, we all get stronger. We walk out feeling happier than when we walked in.’

‘We’re here to strengthen, we’re here to prevent falls or injuries. We’ve all created personal relationships and friendships.’

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Phase 1 independent evaluation

✓ Falls reduced by 44%

✓ 95% of participants report improved mental wellbeing

✓ 97% of participants would recommend Dance to Health to friends and family

✓ See Aesop website for the full March 2019 report

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Be part of the success story!

Join us as a Local

Partner to help bring

Dance to Health

to your area

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Phase 2 and Local Partners

➢ Dance to Health will be a sustainable social enterprise by 2024

➢ Aim is to create 480 sustainable volunteer-led Local Groups by 2024

➢ Local Partners help create Local Groups, contributing local intelligence as well as their commitment and expertise in working with older people

➢ Dance to Health provides a set-up support service to Local Partners and ongoing support to Local Groups

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Local Group activities (1)

‘Ongoing Programme’➢ Reverses strength and balance decline➢ Evidence-based falls prevention

exercise smuggled into creative, sociable, fun dance activity

➢ 42 weekly sessions per year (90’ + 30’ socialising)

➢ Sessions led by a Dance Artist➢ Sustainable through mix of participant

subscriptions and local fundraising➢ A form of social prescribing

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Local Group activities (2)

‘Improvement Programme’ ➢ Initial intensive strength and balance

programme for those in particular need –before joining a Local Group

➢ Evidence-based falls prevention exercise smuggled into creative, sociable, fun dance

➢ Weekly sessions (90’ + 30’ socialising) + homework ~ 50 hours over 26 weeks

➢ Dance Artist + Assistant Dance Artist➢ Like an NHS treatment – free ➢ Subject of a randomised controlled trial in

Phase 2

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Local Group in action

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➢ It recruits older people in need of falls prevention exercise and runs Dance to Health sessions for them

➢ It is run by a volunteer committee

➢ The Local Group is called [XXX] Dance to Health Group and is a member of a growing national Dance to Health family

➢ It can operate either within an existing community organisation or be independently constituted

The Local Partner’s role

✓ The Local Partner is an organisation whose mission includes improving the lives for older people

✓ The Local Partner has a community development/catalyst role, creating a volunteer-led, financially sustainable Local Group

✓ The Local Partner(s) and Local Group receive set-up training and support for adopting the Dance to Health model

✓ Aesop provides ongoing support to the Local Group

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Local Partner Responsibilities

The Local Partner is responsible for developing and supporting the Local Group with the following during the initial set up phase –

1. Identifying geographical target areas

2. Recruiting Volunteers and Participants

3. Sourcing suitable venues

4. Adhering to Dance to Health Brand Guidelines

5. Ensuring Safeguarding and Health & Safety Policies are in place

6. Local marketing and PR

7. Data Collection

Once the group is set up and sustainable, these tasks will be the responsibility of the Local Group.

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Aesop support service – 1 year set-up

1. Aesop’s Local Dance to Health Coordinator to help support Local Group development

2. Training and support, library of information, guidance and templates hosted on a secure part of the Dance to Health website – for example, finding suitable venues, triage process/participant recruitment and tips on creating a sustainable group

3. Provide a Postural Stability Instructor-qualified dance team who will co-design sessions with participants and deliver the activities programme

4. Use of the Dance to Health brand, publicity (such as recruitment materials and newsletters) and central marketing and public engagement support

5. Quality assurance and inclusion in Dance to Health’s national evaluation programme

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Outcomes for older people and their communities

OLDER PEOPLE✓ Sustained improvements in

physical and mental health ✓ Dance enjoyment✓ Increased social participation✓ Reduced loneliness & isolation✓ Maintained independence

COMMUNITIES✓ New and sustainable dance +

health provision ✓ Volunteering development

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Health system endorsements

‘Dance to Health’s emphasis on co-production, building the individual and collective agency of older people, is precisely the approach our future health system needs.’

Joint message from NHS England’s Chief Transformation Officer and Head of Transformation

‘[Dance to Health] could change our whole approach to giving our elderly population greater resilience.’

Dr Michael Dixon, NHS England Clinical Champion for Social Prescribing

‘Observations suggest that physical activity and sport professionals can learn from the power of music and dance. The use of music and storytelling empowered participants to engage in movement; they were encouraged to move limbs through range of movements and gain confidence to 'go further', reaching higher or bending lower, as they were embraced by the music and lost in the storytelling or memories.’

Sheffield Hallam University Phase 1 Evaluation Report

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Costs

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• Set-up service to create Local Group – £7,000 [Parkrun charges £6,000]

• Improvement Programme – £5,000

• Aesop annual support fee for an ongoing Local Group – £600

Local group budget

INCOME• Participant subscriptions• Local fundraising• Earned income from other

activities

EXPENDITURE• Dance Artist (£80 for ½ day)• Support fee to Aesop• Venue and refreshments (if not

free)• Volunteer expenses (if required)• Other activities• Contingency

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Why we do it… Participants’ quotes

‘I really enjoy coming to the sessions and can see that the whole group does too. Thank you so much to the dance artist! I feel so much better after the session whereas other exercise classes I feel exhausted after. I don’t know what it is but Dance to Health helps me feel more alive!’

‘I suffer from what they call labyrinthitis, Vertigo, and it only dawned on me when I filled out the form last week that I haven’t had one episode of that in 26 weeks of coming here’.

‘When I started with Dance to Health … my upper body wasn’t so good. At one time I couldn’t even lift a cup of tea with my right arm. Now I can lift the teapot to pour the tea out’.

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Interested?

For more information on how to bring Dance to Health to your area, contact

Tim Joss, Chief Executive & Founder at Aesop

timjoss@ae-sop.org / 01933 870 161www.dancetohealth.org

@Dance to Health #DancetoHealth

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