INTERGENERATIONAL SILENT DISCO PARTIES FOR OLDER ADULTS LIVING IN LONG-TERM CARE
Ilan Meghelli, Rynnie Cin Ee Son, Julia Banco, Oliver Hang Kin Yu, Shambhavi Arora, Swastika Mondol, Lillian Hung · 2024
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Ilan Meghelli and co-authors study dance parties with headphones in long-term care homes, in a paper published in 2024. At a silent disco, each resident wears wireless headphones and picks a music channel, so the room stays quiet while everyone dances together. Loneliness is common in care homes, and the format mixes generations by inviting young volunteers onto the floor.
Over six weeks, twenty-two older adults joined parties while researchers recorded video, interviewed participants, and held focus groups with forty staff. Three themes emerged: togetherness across generations, a wider social capacity than staff expected, and inclusivity, since each person controlled their own volume and channel. The authors see promise for easing isolation, and call for studies of longer-term effects.
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| CREATOR | Ilan Meghelli, Rynnie Cin Ee Son, Julia Banco, Oliver Hang Kin Yu, Shambhavi Arora, Swastika Mondol, Lillian Hung |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |