Clinical health informatics to address the challenge of multimorbidity: A longitudinal approach

There is an urgent need to understand how multimorbidity (the occurrence of multiple health conditions) develops over the life, how individuals progress from the diagnoses of a first single chronic health condition to subsequent ones, and how these changes are associated with disability, survival or health care use and costs. This project aims to develop and apply advanced analytical techniques which capture the complex reality of multiple chronic health conditions by exploring common multimorbidity patterns suffered by older adults; for example, hypertension, depression and mild cognitive impairment or dementia