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Kenneth Rockwood

Kenneth Rockwood is a geriatrician in Halifax, N.S., and a researcher with the Canadian Frailty Network (CFN), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving care for older Canadians living with frailty.

Frailty and the new ageism

  • HALIFAX, N.S.—Should medicine be ageist? A young trainee doctor recently proposed to me that it should. Health care is overstretched, she argued. “We can’t
Opinion | BY KENNETH ROCKWOOD | January 9, 2017
Canada's federal Health Minister Jane Philpott, pictured in a scrum on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Kenneth Rockwood says medicine should not be ageist and Canada must work to provide better care for frail older adults, especially when they are ill. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Frailty and the new ageism

Opinion | BY KENNETH ROCKWOOD | January 9, 2017
  • HALIFAX, N.S.—Should medicine be ageist? A young trainee doctor recently proposed to me that it should. Health care is overstretched, she argued. “We can’t

Frailty and the new ageism

Opinion | BY KENNETH ROCKWOOD | January 9, 2017
  • HALIFAX, N.S.—Should medicine be ageist? A young trainee doctor recently proposed to me that it should. Health care is overstretched, she argued. “We can’t
Canada's federal Health Minister Jane Philpott, pictured in a scrum on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Kenneth Rockwood says medicine should not be ageist and Canada must work to provide better care for frail older adults, especially when they are ill. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright
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