Health care for the elderly with multimorbidity

This report concerns multimorbidity amongst the elderly. Multimorbidity is the co-occurrence of diseases, irrespective of the nature of their relationship. Multimorbidity occurs in all ages, but mostly in the elderly. In the coming years the proportion of elderly people in our society will increase rapidly, and as a result the number of elderly people with multimorbidity will increase as well.

This led the State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sports to request the Health Council of the Netherlands to advise her on multimorbidity in the elderly and on how to develop an effective geriatric service for elderly people with multimorbidity.