IGS Podcast

Frailty with Professor Ken Rockwood

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In this episode, Edel talks to Professor Ken Rockwood. Professor Rockwood is a geriatrician, a professor of geriatric medicine at Dalhousie University and leads the Frailty and Eldercare Network fo Nova Scotia Health. As an international leader on frailty, he has more than 600 peer-reviewed publications and nine books to his credit. They discuss his career, understanding frailty, frailty assessment tools, hospital acquired deconditioning and lots more.

For more information from discussion points:

  • Prof Rockwood’s Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kenneth-Rockwood
  • Clinical Frailty Scale: https://www.dal.ca/sites/gmr/our-tools/clinical-frailty-scale.html
  • Pictorial Fit‑Frail Scale: https://www.dal.ca/sites/gmr/our-tools/pictorial-fit-frail-scale.html#:~:text=The%20PFFS%20evaluates%20a%20person's,levels%2C%20languages%2C%20and%20cultures.

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