JAMDA
Volume 8, Issue 9 , Pages 595-603, November 2007

How should we grade frailty in nursing home patients?

  • Kenneth Rockwood, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Geriatric Medicine, Dalhousie University, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Kenneth Rockwood, MD, Geriatric Medicine Research Unit, Dalhousie University, Suite 1421, 5955 Veterans’ Memorial Lane, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 2E1, Canada.
  • ,
  • Melanie Joan Abeysundera, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Geriatric Medicine Research Unit, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
  • ,
  • Arnold Mitnitski, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.

published online 18 October 2007.

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 Funds for analysis came from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) grant MOP 628823 and the Dalhousie University Internal Medicine Research Foundation. Kenneth Rockwood is supported by the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation as Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research.

 The authors assert no financial conflict of interest.

PII: S1525-8610(07)00351-9

doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2007.07.012

JAMDA
Volume 8, Issue 9 , Pages 595-603, November 2007