Long-term effects of the Montreal museum of fine arts participatory activities on frailty in older community dwellers: r
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RESEARCH PAPER
Long‑term effects of the Montreal museum of fine arts participatory activities on frailty in older community dwellers: results of the A‑Health study Olivier Beauchet1,2,3,4 · Thomas Bastien5 · Andy Hau Yan Ho4,6 · Christine Vilcocq3 · Kevin Galery3 · Cyrille P. Launay1,3 Received: 13 July 2020 / Accepted: 21 September 2020 © European Geriatric Medicine Society 2020
Key summary points Aim Museums have actively promoted art-based activities for community dwellers. The long-term benefits of these art activities on frailty is matter of debate. Findings The participatory art-based activities of the Montreal museum of fine arts decrease frailty at long-term in older community dwellers. Message Museum art-based activities seem to be an effective intervention to prevent frailty and may place museums as key partners for health prevention in the aging population. Abstract Purpose The study aims (1) to examine the long-term effects (i.e., at 12 months) of the Montreal museum of fine arts (MMFA) participatory art-based activities on frailty in a subset of participants of the Art and Health (A-Health) study and (2) to compare these long-term effects with short-term effects (i.e., at 3 months). Methods The A-Health study is a pre-post intervention, single arm, prospective and longitudinal study. A subset of 101 participants (67.3%) who completed the 12-month follow-up assessment was selected for this study. The intervention consisted in one weekly structured participatory art-based workshop over a 3-month period. Participants were separated according to their frailty status: vigorous (i.e., no frailty) versus mild frailty, moderate frailty and frailty merging mild and moderate frailty. Frailty was assessed before the intervention (M0), at the end of the 3-month intervention (M3) and 12 months (M15) after the end of the intervention. Results The mean value of frailty score was lower after the intervention compared to the beginning, regardless of the time of the assessments (i.e., M3 and M15). The proportion of vigorous participants increased and the proportion of mild frail participants decreased at the end of the intervention (i.e., M3) but no long-term effect was shown (i.e., M15) compared to M0. The proportion of moderate frail participants and frail participants at M15 were significantly lower compared to M0. Conclusion The MMFA participatory art-based activities improved frailty at short and long terms, suggesting that it could be an effective way to promote an active and healthy aging. Trial registration NCT03557723; Title: Effect of Art Museum Activity Program for the Elderly on Health: A Pilot Study; First submission date: January 31, 2018; First posted date: June 15, 2018; prospectively registered. Keywords Experimental study · Frailty · Art-based activity · Community dwelling * Olivier Beauchet [email protected] 1
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Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, Sir Mortimer B. Davis, Jewish General Hospital and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, McGill Unive
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