Kenneth Rockwood OC, a clinician-scientist, is Professor of Geriatric Medicine, and Research Professor of Frailty and Aging at Dalhousie University. He is also an active staff internist and geriatrician at Nova Scotia Health, and Senior Medical Director of its Frailty and Elder Care Network. His work on the measurement and management of frailty has been widely adopted across several health care systems, notably including the National Health Service in the UK.
Ken is a long-time advocate for better care of older people who live with frailty. He argues that modern health care systems, have achieved so much by an ever-sharper focus on single system disorders. We must now put the same energy into the challenge of older patients whose complex needs arise from their multiple, interacting, medical and social problems.