ANDRADE, Mônica Luiza Belotto de OliveiraARAÚJO, Gildete Medeiros de2015-07-022021-09-222015-07-022021-09-222015-04-23ARAÚJO, Gildete Medeiros de. As contribuições da dança na manutenção dos aspectos cognitivos, físicos e sociais na terceira idade. Caicó. UFRN, 2015.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/37724This monograph of the evidence that dance, because it is an art that in the meantime his works with the body and the mind, in general, could positively influence the aspects linked to physical, cognitive and social of people arrive at old age. Thus our work aimed mainly at the show dancing as a promising means of maintaining these aspects thus ensuring access to a good quality of life and well-being for the elderly. Thus, for this study consolidate conducted a qualitative research with the elderly participants of the group "Our Lady of Patronage," the city of San Fernando / RN. The intervention with these elderly occurred in three stages which are: an initial conversation with the participants involved, so that they were cleared information that characterized the group in relation to participation in activities of the culture of body movement and especially the dance; performing a dance workshop followed by a final conversation such that we can collect data on the impressions of the participants regarding the practice of workshop; and a note of "forró of the elderly", as systematic practice in the group. For this, it was necessary to look into some theorists of this issue, for example, Argimon (2006), Cachioni (1998), Rueda and Castro (2010), Fux (1983), among others who made all important to our work . So, after all the research it was revealed that dance can indeed contribute positively in their daily routines to get you to move, stimulate the mind by memorizing and creating movements, to relate better with others maintaining good social interaction, besides allowing pleasant moments that make these individuals leave the monotony and loneliness of the day-to-day.Terceira idade.Dança.Qualidade de vida.bachelorThesis