Anti-aging is designed to prevent the appearance of getting older. However, elderly refers to old or aging. Old age refers to ages nearing or surpassing the life expectancy of human beings, and is the end of the human life cycle. Old people often have limited regenerative abilities and are more susceptible to diseases, injuries, syndromes, and sickness than younger adults.

“With an average age of 68 elderly volunteers were recruited and assigned either an eighteen-month weekly course of learning dance routines, or flexibility and endurance training for determining benefits of exercise, in slowing down or even counteracting age-related decline in mental and physical capacity, as indicated by Dr. Rehfeld.

As we grow older we suffer a decline in mental and physical fitness, which can be made worse by conditions like Alzheimer's disease. A new study, published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, shows that older people who routinely partake in physical exercise can reverse the signs of aging in the brain, and dancing has the most profound effect.

While previous research has shown that physical exercise can combat age-related brain decline, it is not known if one type of exercise can be better than another. To assess this, the exercise routines given to the volunteers differed. The traditional fitness training program conducted mainly repetitive exercises, such as cycling or Nordic walking, but the dance group were challenged with something new each week.

Dr Rehfeld explains, “We tried to provide our seniors in the dance group with constantly changing dance routines of different genres (Jazz, Square, Latin-American and Line Dance). Steps, arm-patterns, formations, speed and rhythms were changed every second week to keep them in a constant learning process. The most challenging aspect for them was to recall the routines under the pressure of time and without any cues from the instructor.”

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