The increasing challenge of multiple chronic diseases (multimorbidity) requires more
evidence-based knowledge and effective practice. In order to better understand the existing …

In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the first World report on ageing
and health. 1 This was followed in 2016 by the World Health Assembly's adoption of a …

Frailty is a consequence of advanced aging, where the frailty phenotype tries to capture
overall decline in health. Frailty involves multiple physiological systems that are intrinsically …

Background The doctor-patient relationship is a crucial aspect of primary-care practice
Research on associations between quality of care provision and burnout and empathy in a …

Frailty is an overarching public health crisis of population aging; however, as a concept and
condition, frailty is poorly understood and underrecognized in clinical settings. Frailty …

Objective Due to the increasing burden of chronic diseases, a considerable part of care
delivery will continue to shift from secondary to primary care, and home care settings …

In 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) described chronic conditions as the
challenge of the 21st century for health systems worldwide and urged countries to change …

Polypathological patients have specific clinical, functional, psychoaffective, social, family
and spiritual characteristics. These patients are generally elderly and frail and have frequent …

Frailty is a long-established descriptive clinical term which is now defined as a 'clinically
recognizable state of increased vulnerability resulting from aging-associated decline in …

Background: In the current study, the referral system in family medicine program was
assessed based on the criterion of comprehensive health care services on data from 17 …