Educational and Cultural Engagement and Incidence of Health Adverse Events

Jewish General Hospital

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Cognitive Decline; Older Adults; Depression

Treatments: Other: Observational

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03987360

2020-1842

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluated if the social and cultural activities decrease the incidence of dementia and frailty conditions.

Full description

The past decade has been characterized by the involvement of Museums in individual health prevention and promotion by using art-based activities to improve quality of life and well-being. Visiting museum or over cultural and educational activity could be used for health prevention and promotion. For the development of appropriate educational and cultural activities, there is a need, first, to improve knowledge about social and health condition of older adult, and second to examine the effects of engagement in educational and social activity on incidence of health adverse events.

Enrollment: 30,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being 50 years and over
• Being enrolled in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
• Actively involved in social and cultural activities

Exclusion criteria

• Never enrolled in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
• Less than 50 years old