Multimorbidity

Multimorbidity, also called multiple long term conditions, is the experience of living with two or more chronic illnesses at the same time, such as a person who has diabetes, heart disease and depression together. It significantly affects a person's health and wellbeing and creates challenges for healthcare systems that are traditionally organized around treating one disease at a time. Multimorbidity can occur at any age but becomes markedly more common with aging, affecting more than half of people over the age of sixty five, and it is associated with problems such as poorly coordinated care, complicated medication regimens, higher treatment costs and greater time spent managing illness.