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Kenneth Rockwood

Kenneth Rockwood

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Medicine
Canada
2023

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Medicine

D-Index
141
Citations
122078
World Ranking
1584
National Ranking
51

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Kenneth Rockwood is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada and has a research focus primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work prominently intersects multiple subfields, including Geriatrics and Gerontology, Economics and Econometrics, Physiology, General Health Professions, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their research addresses several key topics, among which are:

  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Hip and Femur Fractures

Among recent publications associated with their research are:

  • Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission (2020, The Lancet)
  • Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission (2024, The Lancet)
  • Prevalence of frailty in 62 countries across the world: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-level studies (2020, Age and Ageing)
  • Using the Clinical Frailty Scale in Allocating Scarce Health Care Resources (2020, Canadian Geriatrics Journal)
  • A scoping review of the Clinical Frailty Scale (2020, BMC Geriatrics)

Kenneth Rockwood has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Olga Theou
  • Melissa K. Andrew
  • Andrew D. Rutenberg
  • Susan E. Howlett
  • Judith Godin

Their work has been published frequently in venues such as:

  • Age and Ageing
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Value in Health
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Canadian Geriatrics Journal

Kenneth Rockwood's research contributions span a significant body of work, detailing clinical and economic aspects of aging, frailty assessment, and dementia care. Their involvement in multidisciplinary collaborations and publications in diverse yet related venues emphasize an integrative approach to aging and geriatric medicine research.

Best Publications

  • Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission.

    Gill Livingston;Gill Livingston;Jonathan Huntley;Andrew Sommerlad;Andrew Sommerlad;David Ames

  • Frailty in elderly people

    Andrew Clegg;John Young;Steve Iliffe;Marcel Olde Rikkert

  • A global clinical measure of fitness and frailty in elderly people

    Kenneth Rockwood;Xiaowei Song;Chris MacKnight;Howard Bergman

  • Dementia prevention, intervention, and care

    Gill Livingston;Gill Livingston;Andrew Sommerlad;Vasiliki Orgeta;Sergi G Costafreda;Sergi G Costafreda

  • Frailty Consensus: A Call to Action

    John E. Morley;Bruno Vellas;G. Abellan van Kan;Stefan D. Anker

  • A standard procedure for creating a frailty index

    Samuel D Searle;Arnold Mitnitski;Arnold Mitnitski;Evelyne A Gahbauer;Thomas M Gill

  • Frailty in Relation to the Accumulation of Deficits

    Kenneth Rockwood;Arnold Mitnitski

  • Accumulation of deficits as a proxy measure of aging.

    Arnold B. Mitnitski;Alexander J. Mogilner;Kenneth Rockwood

  • Physical activity and risk of cognitive impairment and dementia in elderly persons.

    Danielle Laurin;René Verreault;Joan Lindsay;Kathleen MacPherson

  • Vascular Cognitive Impairment

    John T O'Brien;Timo Erkinjuntti;Barry Reisberg;Gustavo Roman

  • Validity and reliability of the Edmonton Frail Scale

    Darryl B. Rolfson;Sumit R. Majumdar;Ross T. Tsuyuki;Adeel Tahir

  • Prevalence and severity of cognitive impairment with and without dementia in an elderly population

    Janice E Graham;Kenneth Rockwood;B Lynn Beattie;Robin Eastwood

  • Searching for an Operational Definition of Frailty: A Delphi Method Based Consensus Statement. The Frailty Operative Definition-Consensus Conference Project

    Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas;Catherine Féart;Catherine Féart;Giovanni Mann;Jose Viña

  • A Comparison of Two Approaches to Measuring Frailty in Elderly People

    Kenneth Rockwood;Melissa Andrew;Arnold Mitnitski

  • Prevalence and 10-Year Outcomes of Frailty in Older Adults in Relation to Deficit Accumulation

    Xiaowei Song;Arnold Mitnitski;Kenneth Rockwood

  • A brief clinical instrument to classify frailty in elderly people

    Kenneth Rockwood;Karen Stadnyk;Chris MacKnight;Ian McDowell

  • Frailty defined by deficit accumulation and geriatric medicine defined by frailty.

    Kenneth Rockwood;Arnold Mitnitski

  • Research criteria for subcortical vascular dementia in clinical trials.

    Timo Erkinjuntti;D. Inzitari;L. Pantoni;A. Wallin

  • Frailty in elderly people: an evolving concept.

    K Rockwood;R A Fox;P Stolee;D Robertson

  • Frailty, fitness and late-life mortality in relation to chronological and biological age.

    Arnold B Mitnitski;Janice E Graham;Alexander J Mogilner;Kenneth Rockwood

Frequent Co-Authors

David B. Hogan
David B. Hogan University of Calgary
Serge Gauthier
Serge Gauthier McGill University
Sandra E. Black
Sandra E. Black University of Toronto
Howard Feldman
Howard Feldman University of California, San Diego
Andrew Kertesz
Andrew Kertesz University of Western Ontario
Ruth Peters
Ruth Peters Imperial College London
Timo Erkinjuntti
Timo Erkinjuntti University of Helsinki
Kaarin J. Anstey
Kaarin J. Anstey University of New South Wales
Ingmar Skoog
Ingmar Skoog University of Gothenburg
Brian Leber
Brian Leber McMaster University

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