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This monographic report, How Chronic Diseases Affe This monographic report, How Chronic Diseases Affect Ageing, provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of how the global rise in life expectancy is directly influencing the prevalence, complexity, and long-term impact of chronic diseases in ageing populations. Drawing on international health organisations, national statistics, clinical research, and current care models, the document explains how chronic diseases—such as cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, chronic respiratory illnesses, cancer, and other age-associated disorders—shape the physical, functional, cognitive, emotional, and social dimensions of older adults.
The report examines demographic trends, theoretical frameworks, and epidemiological data to explain why chronicity is becoming one of the major public health challenges of the 21st century. It details the increasing coexistence of multiple chronic conditions (multimorbidity), the clinical complexities of polypharmacy, the progressive decline in autonomy, and the emergence of frailty—both physical and social—as a defining characteristic of advanced age.
Through a structured and evidence-based approach, the document outlines:
✔ Types of chronic diseases prevalent in ageing adults
Including cardiovascular disease, COPD, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, hypertension, osteoporosis, depression, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s.
✔ The chronic patient profile
Describing levels of complexity, comorbidity, frailty, care dependence, and the growing role of multidisciplinary teamwork in long-term management.
✔ Risk factors
From modifiable lifestyle behaviours (tobacco, diet, activity) to metabolic, genetic, environmental, and socio-economic determinants.
✔ Key challenges
Such as medication reconciliation, treatment non-adherence, limited access to specialised geriatric resources, fragmented care systems, psychological burden, and nutritional vulnerabilities.
✔ Solutions and innovations
Including preventive strategies (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary), strengthened primary care, case management models, specialised geriatric resources, PROMs and PREMs for quality-of-life measurement, and advanced technologies—AI, remote monitoring, predictive models—to anticipate complications and personalise care.
✔ Conclusions
Highlighting the need for integrated, person-centred, preventive, predictive, and technologically supported healthcare models capable of addressing the growing burden of chronic diseases in an ageing world.
This report serves as an essential resource for healthcare professionals, policymakers, researchers, and organisations seeking to better understand, manage, and innovate within the intersection of chronicity and ageing.
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