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How improv dance helps people with memory loss

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People with memory loss fall more and can be isolated socially. Improv dance can help.

Just dance! People with memory loss fall more often and tend to be more socially isolated. But researchers at Wake Forest University and Wake Forest School of Medicine are finding that improvisational dance can help with both problems.

05/21/2019

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How improv dance helps people with memory loss

Special | 3m 41sVideo has Closed Captions

Just dance! People with memory loss fall more often and tend to be more socially isolated. But researchers at Wake Forest University and Wake Forest School of Medicine are finding that improvisational dance can help with both problems.

05/21/2019

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