'If I can walk, I can dance' says 92-year-old viral hit

A group of elderly women have gone viral on social media, after staging a dance-off at their local seniors club.

June and Julie, who are both in their 90s, were filmed dancing at the Coundon Care Seniors Club in Coventry.

Since then, the video of them busting moves and throwing shapes to the Beatles hit, I Saw Her Standing There, has been seen more than 70,000 times.

June Bowcott, 92, said being able to go to the dances put on by the club meant a great deal. "I like to make people happy. If I can walk, I can dance," she said.

The charity, Coundon Care, was founded in 1984, and centre manager, Kay Smith, said it was created to challenge the ideas of what care for older people should look like.

"We're not here to sit there and read a book or watch a TV screen. They can do that at home," she said.

"We're here to make it fun, active, make them laugh and just be young at heart like we all are."

According to data compiled by the National Centre for Creative Health, dancing for older people cuts the risk of falls by 58% when combined with physiotherapy, and also helps reduce the risk of dementia.

Smith said that there was evidence of other benefits as well.

"They're less likely to have Alzheimer's or have Alzheimer's progressing themselves because they're keeping social, they're keeping their mind active and their body active."

The club runs three days a week, with each day featuring a different decade of music for the attendees to boogie to.

Monday was 80s day, meaning foil wigs, flashing glasses and a special dinner of chicken Kievs with peach cobbler for pudding.

However, for one of the women whose dance-off made her virally famous, dancing is off the menu - at least for the moment.

June slipped and injured her foot at the weekend, meaning while she was at the centre for the 80s dance, she was watching, not jiving.

She said going to the dance days, took her back to her younger life with her sisters.

"We'd make something up, me and my sisters, and we'd dance and sing and everything, as though we were film stars," she said.

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