Fall risk screening in older adults using the "CARE" frailty scale: The NuAge cohort results.

Background: "CARE" is an electronic health (e-health) application (app) which assesses frailty with its frailty module and risk of falls with its mobility module. This study examines and compares the risk of incident falls (i.e.

Museum-based art activities to stay young at heart? Results of a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Health benefits have been reported with art activities. Heart rate is a biomarker of health state. The aim of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to compare the changes in heart rate over a 3 month-period in older adults participating in art-based activities at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA, Quebec, Canada) and in their control counterparts.

ER risk levels and their association with incident falls, their recurrence and post-fall fractures in older women: Results of the EPIDOS study.

Background: "Emergency Room Evaluation and Recommendations" (ER) is a validated clinical tool which stratifies the risk of the occurrence of adverse outcomes in three levels (i.e., low, moderate and high) in older people attending emergency departments.

Productive arts engagement at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum and its health effects on the older Japanese population: results of a randomized controlled trial.

Background: This randomized controlled trial aims to compare changes in mental and physical health in older Japanese community-dwellers who participated in a productive art-based activity at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum (intervention group) and in their counterparts, who did not participate in the intervention (control group).

Methods: A total of 73 older community-dwellers living in Tokyo participated in a single-blind RCT in two parallel groups (intervention group versus control group). The intervention was 2 h of productive art-based activities per week.

Effects of museum-based art activities on older community dwellers' physical activity: the A-health randomized controlled trial results.

Purpose: Museum-based art activities have demonstrated health benefits in older adults. Few clinical trials, however, have examined physical health benefits specifically. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) aims to compare changes in daily step count over a 3-month period in older adults participating in museum-based art activities and their control counterparts.

Frailty, Cognitive Impairment, and Incident Major Neurocognitive Disorders: Results of the NuAge Cohort Study.

Background: Frailty is associated with an increased risk of major neurocognitive disorders (MNCD).

Objective: This study aims to compare the Fried physical model and the CARE deficit accumulation model for their association with incident major neurocognitive disorders (MNCD), and to examine how the addition of cognitive impairment to these frailty models impacts the incidence in community-dwelling older adults.

Methods: A subset of community dwellers (n = 1,259) who participated in the "Quebec Longitudinal Study on Nutrition and Successful Aging" (NuAge) were selected in this Elderly population-based observational cohort study with 3 years of follow-up.

Interaction between cognitive and motor disorders for risk screening of incident falls: results of an elderly population-based observational cohort study.

Background: This study aims to examine (1) the association of "Emergency Room Evaluation and Recommendations" (ER) cognitive and motor items with incident falls (i.e., ≥ 1), their recurrence (i.

Benefits of a 3-month cycle of weekly virtual museum tours in community dwelling older adults: Results of a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Museums can be instrumental in fostering social inclusion and may improve the overall health of the older population. Over the course of the 2019 coronavirus pandemic, many older adults suffered as a result of confinement measures, which may have accelerated the processes that lead to physical frailty and increased mental health risks. This study aims to examine whether a 3-month cycle of weekly virtual tours of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) may have improved feelings of social inclusion, wellbeing and quality of life, and reduced physical frailty in older adults living within the community of Montreal.

Motoric cognitive risk syndrome and incident hospitalization in Quebec's older population: Results of the NuAge cohort study.

Background: Screening older adults at risk of hospitalization is essential to prevention of this adverse event. Motoric cognitive risk syndrome (MCR) has been associated with incident dementia and falls, which are both risk factors of hospitalization. There is no information on the association of MCR with incident hospitalization in older adults.

Using Interaction between Cognitive and Motor Impairment for Risk Screening of Major Neurocognitive Disorders: Results of the EPIDOS Observational Cohort Study.

Background And Purpose: Cognitive and motor impairments are risk factors of major neurocognitive disorders (MNCD). Inability to name the date and use of a walking aid and/or history of falls are two items which are surrogate measures of cognitive and motor impairments. This study aims to examine the association of inability to name the date (i.

Emergency Room Evaluation and Recommendations and Risk Screening of Incident Major Neurocognitive Disorders in Older Females: Results of an Observational Population-Based Cohort Study.

Background: "Emergency Room Evaluation and Recommendations" (ER) risk levels (i.e., low, moderate and high) may be used to screen for major neurocognitive disorders (MNCD) in older emergency department users, as a high ER risk level is associated with MNCD diagnosis.

CARE frailty e-health scale: Association with incident adverse health outcomes and comparison with the Cardiovascular Health Study frailty scale in the NuAge cohort.

Background: This study examines and compares CARE and Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) frailty states (i.e., robust, prefrail and frail) for their association with incident adverse health outcomes, including falls, depression, cognitive and functional decline, major neurocognitive disorders, hospitalization and mortality in community-dwelling older adults living in the province of Quebec (Canada).