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Dance makes the aged enjoy late life

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-09-03 17:15

Nearly 40% Chinese women and senior over 65 suffer from the uncontrolled loss of urine, or urinary incontinence (UI), said medical experts.

Sufferers may lose several drops of urine while laughing, coughing or running, while others may experience more acute symptoms like feeling a sudden urge to pee - before discharging a large amount of urine. "A large number of patients, for fear of the risk of public embarrassment caused by UI, prevent themselves from enjoying many activities with their families and friends. UI brings a lot of troubles to the patients' daily life and interpersonal relations, some of them even develop depression," Medical experts said.

UI "changed" the aged's late life, so correcting their fear and embarrassment to the disease might be the first crucial step. To encourage senior to keep healthy and optimistic attitude towards life, and appeal all walks of society to be concerned about senior, a special social dance friendship match was held last month in Zhabei Gym, Shanghai. About a thousand shining old-aged dancers from Beijing and Shanghai take part in the match.

Mr. Shao Qingfeng, the CEO of the sponsor, Kimberly-Clark (China) Limited Corporation, said "'vigor' is not proprietary word for young people. We hope more and more old-age join in the dance match and enjoy their lives full of confidence and energy. At the same time, we expect more and more people come with Kimberly-Clark Depend, to care about social aging and pay more attention to senior, letting them lead a better life and spend their later years in happiness." Kimberly-Clark is the global leader in the hygiene health care field, whose top adult incontinence care brand, Depend, is the best seller in many countries.

More than half of the dancers and their partners' total age is over 110, and more than 100 pairs' total age is over 120. The oldest player is nearly 80 years old. Although some elders have sick, long-term dancing brings them joys, hope and health. Considering the long time of the match, Depend prepared adult paper diaper for dancers, which allowed them act freely. Wearing paper diaper can’t influence the appearance and helped dancers avoid troubles as well as let patients with incontinence feel comfortable.