Sensory abilities decline with age. More than 5% of the world's population, approximately
360 million people, have disabling hearing loss. In adults, disabling hearing loss is defined …

Background Many people with chronic disease have more than one chronic condition, which
is referred to as multimorbidity. The term comorbidity is also used but this is now taken to …

Background The concept of frailty is rapidly gaining attention as an independent syndrome
with high prevalence in older adults. Thereby, frailty is often related to certain adverse …

Background Multimorbidity is not uncommon and the associated impact it places on
healthcare utilisation and societal costs is of increased concern. The aim of the current study …

Trial design: to further validate the FORTA (Fit fOR The Aged) concept, a bicentric
randomised, controlled trial was run in two geriatric clinics. Methods: patients (≥ 65 years,≥ …

In the theory of syndemics, diseases are hypothesized to co-occur in particular temporal or
geographical contexts due to harmful social conditions (disease concentration) and to …

Background Multimorbidity has become one of the main challenges in the recent years for
patients, health care providers and the health care systems globally. However, literature …

This study utilised data from the National Income Dynamics Study, a longitudinal study with
a sample of approximately 28 000 people, to investigate the cross-sectional and spatial …

Debate continues on how to measure and weight diseases in multimorbidity. We quantified
the association of a broad range of chronic diseases with physical health–related qualify of …

Multimorbidity increases with age and is generally more common in women, but little is
known about sex effects on the “typology” of multimorbidity. We have characterized …