[Violence against the elderly in domestic care settings : Short profile of an interdisciplinary research project].

Most elderly people wish to remain and be cared for in their own home. Approximately 1.38 million people in Germany are cared for without professional support.

Dance movement: a therapeutic program for psychiatric clients.

Findings from a research project on the effectiveness of dance movement with psychiatric clients are reported in this article. The author discusses how dance movement therapy (DMT) improves the emotional, psychological, and physical well-being of psychiatric clients. She then discusses the ways in which expressive and communicative behaviors were used as nursing interventions to facilitate higher levels of wellness.