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Am I healthy? It’s the question that launched a zillion Google searches. Superfoods. Supplements. High intensity interval training. The ever elusive eight hours of sleep. We tend to assign this assembly line mentality to our health: avocados in, lower cholesterol out. But, more and more, we’re learning that such thinking fails to appreciate what health really is. Health is your housing, your job, and the transportation that gets you between the two. It’s your social connections, your media diet, and the city, state and country you live in. It’s how you spend your time: on a pickleball court, a church pew or an Instagram feed. The more we learn about human health, the larger the array of impacts becomes. “Whole-person health” is an emerging approach that reflects this. It views a person’s physical, mental, emotional and social wellness as not just relevant, but connected. This growing recognition presents a challenge, because most health care systems weren’t designed to take all those factors into account, much less offer dynamic treatments for them. Hospitals, clinics and insurance companies often take a mechanic’s approach to “fixing” patients. Even preventative care is usually focused on a narrow band of conventional concerns like exercise, nutrition and alcohol.  But this is beginning to change. Some health care systems are starting to integrate aspects of whole-person health. Other efforts are occurring at the grassroots level, as organizations and advocates bring whole-person health directly into their communities. In fact, we’ve written about some of these efforts in the past, such as social prescriptions that treat loneliness, and farms in the Netherlands where people with dementia can live, work and thrive. Over the next six months, our newest series, A Patient Is a Person, will explore the surprising, innovative ways whole-person health is transforming the patient journey and improving our overall well-being. We’ll take a long stroll with a walking therapy group, visit a museum under doctor’s orders, and inhabit the cozy environs of a home that is literally warmed by prescription. We may even learn how reading this series could lead to a healthier you. This series is sponsored by UPIC Health. To learn more about our funder-supported content, read our Editorial Independence Policy. The post Introducing ‘A Patient Is a Person’ appeared first on Reasons to be Cheerful.

“Yes yes yes, that’s extraordinary,” exclaims Pascaline Bonnave, hopping around with glee after briefly studying a scarlet, poppy-esque drawing with her judicious eyes. “That’s really beautiful. Now you must give a name to it.” Bonnave, dressed in blue jeans and a leather jacket covered in patches of flowers and birds, swivels to look at the progress of the other participants in her art therapy class.  The task for the dozen attendees today is to invent their own flower as well as to coin a plausible species name. There are tall, yellow florets heavily inspired by sunflowers; exquisite purple, mauve and pink posies; and winding chains of daisy-like blossoms. “It’s not that it’s not beautiful,” adds Bonnave, encouraging one woman who doubts her floral creation. “You just need to finish it. Add some shading. Give it some roots.” Pascaline Bonnave observing participants during an art therapy session. Credit: Peter Yeung The afternoon’s activity, simple as it may seem, is part of a unique initiative drawing on the genuine power of art and culture to improve people’s health and wellbeing. For more than a decade, the French city of Lille’s Palais des Beaux-Arts — which was inaugurated in 1892 and is home to France’s second largest collection behind only the Louvre — has deployed a kind of “museo-therapy” that uses the museum space and the treasures held within it to help treat patients from local hospitals. But in September 2023, this initiative became a little more formal when it signed an agreement with the University Hospital Center of Lille (CHU) to offer 140 museum art therapy sessions over a year to patients who have been given a “museum prescription” by doctors, making it one of the most significant programs of its kind in the world. The idea of a museum prescription, which fits under an umbrella of out-of-hospital, nonclinical treatment known as social prescribing, is that exposure to art and culture or history can complement, accelerate or potentially even displace some forms of medical care in traditional settings — in an effective, enjoyable and low-cost manner. Lille’s illustrious Palais des Beaux-Arts, inaugurated in 1892, has the second largest art collection in France, behind only the Louvre. Credit: Peter Yeung Lille’s Palais des Beaux-Arts has been working with all kinds of participants, such as people with Alzheimer’s, drug users and autistic children. Once a week, there’s also an open class for the general public. This day’s session is for women receiving treatment for endometriosis, medically assisted reproduction and gynecological or breast cancer. Bonnave begins each two-hour session with a brief tour of the museum’s collection to inspire participants. For this class, she picked a few Realist paintings of flowers and fruits, otherwise known as nature morte, in the museum’s Dutch section.  “I know the power of art,” says Bonnave. “This place is a gold mine of inspiration.” Then, participants move to another part of the museum to do an art therapy session. The efforts, which began a decade ago with sessions for autistic children, were in part triggered by the museum’s need to involve the public in the arts as part of a French obligation for cultural institutions known as the PSC, according to Marie Vidal de la Blache, the Palais’s public development manager and lead for art-health projects. 

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