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Kenneth Rockwood
Researcher at Dalhousie University
Publications - 775
Citations - 77990
Kenneth Rockwood is an academic researcher from Dalhousie University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dementia & Population. The author has an hindex of 108, co-authored 739 publications receiving 61785 citations. Previous affiliations of Kenneth Rockwood include Nova Scotia Health Authority & Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute.
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Frailty in elderly people
TL;DR: Developing more efficient methods to detect frailty and measure its severity in routine clinical practice would greatly inform the appropriate selection of elderly people for invasive procedures or drug treatments and would be the basis for a shift in the care of frail elderly people towards more appropriate goal-directed care.
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A global clinical measure of fitness and frailty in elderly people
Kenneth Rockwood,Xiaowei Song,Chris MacKnight,Howard Bergman,David B. Hogan,Ian McDowell,Arnold Mitnitski +6 more
TL;DR: The ability of the Clinical Frailty Scale to predict death or need for institutional care, and correlated the results with those obtained from other established tools are determined.
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Dementia prevention, intervention, and care
Gill Livingston,Gill Livingston,Andrew Sommerlad,Vasiliki Orgeta,Sergi G. Costafreda,Sergi G. Costafreda,Jonathan Huntley,Jonathan Huntley,David Ames,Clive Ballard,Sube Banerjee,Alistair Burns,Jiska Cohen-Mansfield,Claudia Cooper,Claudia Cooper,Nick C. Fox,Laura N. Gitlin,Robert Howard,Robert Howard,Helen C. Kales,Eric B. Larson,Eric B. Larson,Karen Ritchie,Karen Ritchie,Kenneth Rockwood,Elizabeth L Sampson,Quincy M. Samus,Lon S. Schneider,Geir Selbæk,Geir Selbæk,Linda Teri,Naaheed Mukadam +31 more
TL;DR: The Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention, and Care met to consolidate the huge strides that have been made and the emerging knowledge as to what the authors should do to prevent and manage dementia.
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Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission.
Gill Livingston,Gill Livingston,Jonathan Huntley,Andrew Sommerlad,Andrew Sommerlad,David Ames,Clive Ballard,Sube Banerjee,Carol Brayne,Alistair Burns,Jiska Cohen-Mansfield,Claudia Cooper,Sergi G. Costafreda,Amit Dias,Nick C. Fox,Laura N. Gitlin,Robert Howard,Helen C. Kales,Mika Kivimäki,Eric B. Larson,Adesola Ogunniyi,Vasiliki Orgeta,Karen Ritchie,Kenneth Rockwood,Elizabeth L Sampson,Quincy M. Samus,Lon S. Schneider,Geir Selbæk,Linda Teri,Naaheed Mukadam +29 more
TL;DR: Author(s): Livingston, Gill; Huntley, Jonathan; Sommerlad, Andrew ; Sommer Glad, Andrew; Ames, David; Ballard, Clive; Banerjee, Sube; Brayne, Carol; Burns, Alistair; Cohen-Mansfield, Jiska; Cooper, Claudia; Costafreda, Sergi G; Dias, Amit; Fox, Nick; Gitlin, Laura N; Howard, Robert; Kales, Helen C;
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Frailty Consensus: A Call to Action
John E. Morley,Bruno Vellas,G. Abellan Van Kan,Stefan D. Anker,Juergen M. Bauer,Roberto Bernabei,Matteo Cesari,Wm. Cameron Chumlea,Wolfram Doehner,Jonathan Evans,Linda P. Fried,Jack M. Guralnik,Paul R. Katz,Theodore K. Malmstrom,Roger McCarter,Luis Miguel Francisco Gutierrez Robledo,Kenneth Rockwood,Stephan von Haehling,Maurits Vandewoude,Jeremy D. Walston +19 more
TL;DR: For the purposes of optimally managing individuals with physical frailty, all persons older than 70 years and all individuals with significant weight loss (>5%) due to chronic disease should be screened for frailty.