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Why does comorbidity matter for human services work? 

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Furthermore, managing several different disease-based care pathways was found to be unsuitable in home care services, as well as unsuitable for a population characterized by a substantial degree of comorbidity.


Accumulating evidence suggests that comorbidity is pervasive.


Such findings have important implications for comorbidity.


There is a strong association between comorbidity and the volume and variety of health care services that are used.


Comorbidity care should be integrated into current management for patients with AD.


These factors need to be taken into account when relying on administrative data for comorbidity information.


IMPLICATIONS Our study improves understanding of comorbidity within an understudied and underserved population by characterizing comorbidity in conventional and novel ways.