title: [Biodance as process of existential renew for the elderly].
abstract: In this study, we searched, from the ethnographic method, to identify the effects of Biodance in elders that lived it. The study was done with eight elderly that integrate the group of Biodance of SESC from Fortaleza, Ceará. The data were collected through semi-structured interview and participant observation, analyzed by method of narrative analysis. In the search of meaning of Biodance to elders, it highlighted that it constitutes a mechanism of facing of difficulties with health, stimulating the change of behavior in relation to health conditions, due increase the vital impetus and will to live. In this sense, the Biodance promotes the rescue of health that grew older.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universiade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Bárbara Pereira
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: D'Alencar
authors.forename: Maria Manuela Rino
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Mendes
authors.forename: Maria Salete Bessa
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Jorge
authors.forename: José Maria Ximenes
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Guimarães
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003614:Dance Therapy; D005260:Female; D005853:Geriatrics; D006801:Humans