HORIZON 2020 - Joined-up care for patients with several illnesses

Unfortunately, dealing with one chronic disease doesn't mean that you can't develop another. More than 50 million people in Europe are living with more than one such condition, and this number is expected to grow. EU-funded researchers are looking into ways to provide them with more integrated support and redesign healthcare systems accordingly.

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Health Innovation Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing Austria Croatia Germany Hungary Netherlands Spain United Kingdom Norway

date: 20/01/2016

Project: Sustainable intEgrated care modeLs for m...

acronym: SELFIE

See also: CORDIS

On the whole, patients with a combination of chronic conditions — diabetes and high blood pressure, for example — report poorer quality of life than people with a single illness, and their health status is worse. The added risk to their life and wellbeing derives not just from the diseases themselves, but also from the fact that they are combined. One reason is that people with such so-called co-morbidities or multi-morbidities can struggle to obtain coherent care.

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