Multimorbidity is increasingly becoming the norm, particularly in the older population, and presents enormous challenges for patients and their doctors. Guidelines for single conditions may not apply in a person with more than one of these conditions, and aggressively treating several conditions may do more harm than good. For people with multimorbidity, consideration needs to be given to individualising care and designing it around each person's needs and priorities.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://patient.info/doctor/multimorbidity