Theou, Olga
O’Brien, Myles W.
Godin, Judith
Blanchard, Chris
Cahill, Leah
Hajizadeh, Mohammad
Hartley, Peter
Jarrett, Pamala
Kehler, Dustin Scott
Romero-Ortuno, Roman
Visvanathan, Renuka
Rockwood, Kenneth
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Frailty Network (CAT2018-27)
Article History
Received: 7 February 2023
Accepted: 15 July 2023
First Online: 10 August 2023
Declarations
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: All methods will be carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. We have attained Research Ethics Board approval from the Nova Scotia Health (ID: 1023828). Written informed consent will be obtained from the participants or that person’s care partner.
: Not applicable.
: Kenneth Rockwood has asserted copyright of the Clinical Frailty Scale and, with Olga Theou, the Pictorial Fit-Frail Scale, which are made freely available for education, research, and not-for-profit health-care. Licenses for commercial use are facilitated through the Dalhousie Office of Commercialization and Industry Engagement. In addition to academic and hospital appointments, Kenneth Rockwood is Co-founder of Ardea Outcomes, which (as DGI Clinical) in the last three years has contracts with pharma and device manufacturers (Danone, Hollister, INmune, Novartis, Takeda) on individualized outcome measurement. In 2020 he attended an advisory board meeting with Nutricia on dementia, and chaired a Scientific Workshop & Technical Review Panel on frailty for the Singapore National Research Foundation. Otherwise any personal fees are for invited guest lectures, rounds and academic symposia, received directly from event organizers, for presentations on frailty. He is Associate Director of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegenerataion in Aging, itself funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Alzheimer Society of Canada and several other charities. Renuka Visvanathan is chair of the medical advisory group to a technology start up involving sensors and real time monitoring- HealthyVibes.Ai. All other co-authors have no conflicts of interest to report.