Kenneth Rockwood

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

Dementia prevention, intervention, and care

Investigation of frailty as a moderator of the relationship between neuropathology and dementia in Alzheimer's disease: a cross-sectional analysis of data from the Rush Memory and Aging Project

Frailty in elderly people

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

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the prevalence and 10‐year outcomes of frailty in older adults in relation to deficit accumulation. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: The Nation...

A global clinical measure of fitness and frailty in elderly people

Frailty is a valid and clinically important construct that is recognizable by physicians. Clinical judgments about frailty can yield useful predictive information.

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

Prevalence, Attributes, and Outcomes of Fitness and Frailty in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Report From the Canadian Study of Health and Aging

Fitness and frailty form a continuum and predict survival. Exercise influences survival, even in old age. Relative fitness and frailty can be determined quickly in a clinical se...

Frailty in elderly people: an evolving concept.

T he terms frail and are now part of the language of geriatric medicine and gerontology.'` Characterizing the physiologic basis of frailty has been described as one of the most...

The Accumulation of Deficits with Age and Possible Invariants of Aging

This paper extends a method of apprising health status to a broad range of ages from adolescence to old age. The “frailty index” is based on the accumulation of deficits (sympto...

Some mathematical models of frailty and their clinical implications

Frailty is a term that is used often, but commonly not defined precisely. As reviewed elsewhere most definitions share several features. Typically, older adults who are frail ha...

Assessment of Individual Risk of Death Using Self‐Report Data: An Artificial Neural Network Compared with a Frailty Index

Objectives: To evaluate the potential of an artificial neural network (ANN) in predicting survival in elderly Canadians, using self‐report data. Design: Cohort study with up to ...