| Benefits to older adults | ||
Dancetown promotes general physical activity, strength, endurance, coordination and balance, as well as improving body composition, reducing obesity and encouraging visual spatial skills and attention.
Since it is intentionally engaging through its framework of rapid feedback and rewards, DanceTown can promote both short and long term adherence to physical activity.
An important population who might benefit from and enjoy DanceTown is postmenopausal women who have had difficulty establishing a regular physical activity program. Since menopause is a time of change in body composition, including loss of bone density and lean muscle mass as well as increased fat [14-16], DanceTown may help maintain or improve not only physical and mental health, but also body composition.