Effects of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Visits and Older Community Dwellers With a Precarious State

Jewish General Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Well Aging

Old Age

Health Impairment

Social Isolation

Treatments

Other: Guided tour at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03962985

2020-1789

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the effects of MMFA visits on psychological, health, social conditions and personal interactions in older community dwellers with a precarious state and to determine whether these effects may change precarity.

Full description

Precarity is a vulnerable state exposing individuals to adverse health, psychological social events. Older adults are exposed to precarity, especially those who were the old generation of immigrants in Canada. Art-based activities have also been proposed to community dwellers and have shown positive effects on health outcomes and are determinants for well-being with aging. The effects of participatory art-based activities on precarity in older adults have never been examined. Recently, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) developed a new participatory art-based activity which is a 3 month-period of weekly museum visits for precarious populations.

Enrollment

41 patients

Sex

All

Ages

65+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Being 65 years and over;
Precarious condition defined with a score ≥30 (/100)
Having an Internet access with an electronic device (i.e.; laptop, computer, smartphone, tablet) as the repetitive assessments for this study will be performed on the web platform of the Centre of Excellence on Longevity of McGill University;
Understanding and writing the different languages of the recruitment centre (i.e., French, English, Chinese.);
Severe frail condition determined with the Centre of Excellence self-administered questionnaire (CESAM)
Living in Montreal

Exclusion criteria

A concomitant participation to another clinical trial;
Participation in another art-based activity;
Palliative care;
Living in residence;
Having a moderate to severe mobility impairment (i.e. using a walker, a wheelchair or being unable to walk alone 10m).