Dancing offers a host of other benefits, too. All those quick movements help you maintain your sense of balance and equilibrium. If your memory needs a workout, just try memorizing a few line dances. The list is endless, it seems. If this isn't obvious, then you've never danced.
Dancing is fun.
It almost includes a socializing element, too, so it's a natural cure for loneliness and isolation. Dancing reduces both anxiety and depression, as do many other forms of exercise. One eight-year study by the National Institute of Mental Health in the US found that women who were physically active experienced only half the depression as women who never exercised. And there's little doubt that you'll stay happier in your home than in a home. Alive A report in the Archives of Internal Medicine says that exercise can lower an elderly person's risk of death by nearly a third.