Abstract:We're living much longer, but are we healthier?Advances in medicine mean that we are living longer and more economically productive lives. A triumph, no doubt, but one which needs to be tempered by the fact that the number of older people diagnosed with four or more diseases will double between 2015 and 2035(Kingston et al., 2018. We are living longer, but for many, those
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