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Aging and chronic disorders brings the most up to date answers into clear readable focus focusing on the most prevalent conditions affecting older adults diabetes cardiovascular disease cancer osteoporosis osteoarthritis rheumatoid arthritis low back pain and fibromyalgia morewitz and goldstein analyze disabilities and risk factors . Type of chronic disease and subjective cognitive decline status compared with those without scd adults aged 45 years and older with scd were more likely to have coronary heart disease stroke diabetes asthma copd cancer arthritis or kidney disease. With its wide range of issues aging and chronic disorders is a major resource for clinicians and students in primary care gerontology nursing rehabilitation epidemiology public health and mental health public health administrators and policymakers should find important insights here as well. According to the national council on aging about 80 percent of older adults have at least one chronic disease and 68 percent have at least two in our survey nearly one in two seniors reported living with two or more chronic conditions among the most common were hypertension 46 percent