Creative dance for older adults: A new social prescription pathway?

This dataset includes qualitative data collected from two funded research projects: 1) The impact of a creative contemporary dance programme for older adults; 2) A creative contemporary dance programme for older adults: A new social prescription pathway?

Both studies aimed to address the following research questions:

1. What are the experiences of being part of a creative community dance group for older adults?
2. How does a new social prescription route to a creative and community dance group for older adults work in practice?
3. How can organisations establish and integrate their services into the social prescription system?

Data was collected via various qualitative methods: Telephone interviews with new dancers; interviews with dance facilitators; interview with social prescription link workers; end of term questionnaires for dancers; post exchange events questionnaires for dancers; post performance questionnaires for dancers; researcher observations of weekly dance sessions; weekly image elicitation with dancers.