{"value"=>"<p> <span class=\"title\">Dance/Movement Therapy: A Means of Expanding Social Interaction With Institutionalized Aged</span></p> <p>The following is a discussion of dance/movement therapy as a viable treatment for elderly individuals living in a nursing institution. Social theories of aging will provide the context in which to perceive aspects of the aging process. The results of multiple losses, nursing institutional living and aging in general has a profound effect psychologically, and on the movement repertoire of elderly people. This directly effects their ability to interact with others and in general cope in their environment. It is a basic premise of this paper that dance/movement therapy can approach and work with the psycho-social needs of the elderly and can help reconnect the individual back into some social milieu.</p>"}