Dr. Kenneth Rockwood: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Professor of geriatric medicine at Dalhousie University in Canada
- Quoted on
- Elderly care & frailty
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“developed a way of assessing frailty as the combined accumulation of different physiological deficits, ranging from diseases to functional limitations”
What Dr. Kenneth Rockwood has said
“You can think of frailty as rapid aging, or more rapid aging than your peers.”
Professor of geriatric medicine at Dalhousie University in Canada · Elderly care & frailty · 30 Sept 2026 · Are You Frail? What to Know and How to Reduce Your Risk ↗
“It's the demographic imperative. In 2021 the leading edge of the baby boom generation turned 75 years old, and 75 is the age at which most of the diseases of aging take off. So now frailty is not some mystical, mythical far-off thing.”
Professor of medicine at Dalhousie University in Canada who developed one of the scales for diagnosing frailty · Elderly care & frailty · 27 Aug 2026 · Frailty Is More Than Just Weakness. Here's What to Know ↗
Where Dr. Kenneth Rockwood has been quoted
- Frailty sets in far earlier than you’d expect, but you can reverse itnewscientist.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Are You Frail? What to Know and How to Reduce Your Risknytimes.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Frailty Is More Than Just Weakness. Here's What to Knowtime.com · 27 Aug 2026
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