포스트 코로나 시대에 노인 무용 치료의 필요성과 실천방안

Abstract

This study recognizes the necessity of elderly persons dance-therapy for the mental / physical health of the elderly and seeks an action plan during this pandemic situation that brought about a global crisis. After identifying the physiological, psychological, and social characteristics of the elderly who are vulnerable to Covid-19, it was found that the physical activity for the elderly during the Covid-19 epidemic is desperately required. Dance-therapy as a physical activity has the physical, mental, and social effects for the elderly to overcome Covid-19. In regards to elderly dance-therapy, customized dance-therapies for diseases must be studied from a variety of perspectives. Also as there is a increase in people who desire dance based treatment activities for various diseases, it should be conducted with the aim of improving and preventing health or illness in the elderly. To accomplish this, it is necessary to recognize the necessity of introducing active dance therapy by specialized institutions in charge of preventing disease in the elderly. In addition, it is necessary to revitalize the professional curriculum for dance therapy in regular university courses and social education programs, and to continuously create exchanges with specialized institutions for the elderly. Today, Convergent Arts Therapy is pursuing and oriented toward the integration of body and mind, and can create new and improved areas. In particular, dance therapy is a therapeutic activity that helps psychological adaptation and recovery by using the medium of dance, so a new dance therapy can be created through technological fusion with adjacent field of study. First, an accurate understanding of the elderly’s experiences, needs, and rights is required, it is also necessary to create a customized design for elderly dance-therapy according to the diversity of diseases affecting the elderly. Second, where face-to-face meetings are difficult and thereby make it difficult to treat the elderly with dance-therapy, in this era of digital transformation, overlapping and individualized elderly dance-therapy must be made mandatory via the linking the national administrative agency with each elderly living facility (home welfare, personalized care for the elderly, nursing welfare centers, cultural centers, long-term care centers, geriatric medical facilities, etc.). To do this, it is necessary to establish a smart aging-platform and visualize elderly dance-therapy through a digital system. Third, it is necessary to identify diseases in the elderly by means of training dance therapists specializing in elderly dance-therapy, further to on-site training of dance therapists and develop various dance therapy programs.