Age and Ageing , 23 January 2018
- Two-thirds of adults aged over 65 are expected to be living with multiple health conditions (multi-morbidity) by 2035. Seventeen percent would be living with four or more diseases, double the number in 2015. Two-thirds of these people would have a mental illness like dementia or depression.
- Findings are based on a computer model using data on over 300,000 people from three UK population surveys.
