Mental health and multimorbidity: psychosocial adjustment as an important process for quality of life.

Background: Multimorbidity (the co-occurrence of two or more chronic diseases) can be seen as a prototypical situation in which psychosocial adjustment is required. Even though most patients adapt successfully, a significant number of individuals show adaptation problems and develop additional mental health problems.

Objective: For this reason, this article focuses on the importance of psychosocial adaptation as a core process in the context of quality of life.