Dementia, multimorbidity and inequality: implications for brain health and the ageing population.
The article focuses on the association between dementia mortality, multimorbidity, and socioeconomic deprivation in England, based on analysis of nearly one million death certificates from 2013 to 2023. It highlights that dementia rarely occurs alone in older adults, with most individuals experienci...
| Publicado en: | Age & Ageing Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 1 - 4 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2026
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