evidence: Almost three quarters of people aged 85 years or more had a long-standing illness or health problem The information presented in Figure 19 complements that already shown in Figure 4 (above), insofar as people who assess their own health as good or very good are unlikely to report that they suffer from chronic morbidity — a long-standing illness or health problem that has lasted for at least six months — while the reverse is also true. In 2018, almost three quarters (72.5 %) of very old people (aged 85 years or more) in the EU-27 reported that they had a long-standing illness or health problem. This share fell as a function of age: approximately two thirds (66.0 %) of people aged 75-84 years were affected by a long-standing illness or health problem, while the corresponding share for people aged 65-74 years was lower still (55.8 %).