Asthma can affect people of any age
- Adult onset (sometimes called ‘late onset’) asthma is the term applied to asthma occurring for the first time in adulthood.
- Some adult onset asthma is related to triggers in the work place and is called occupational asthma.
- Long standing asthma is a term sometimes applied to having asthma either continuously or ‘off and on’ throughout life. This is sometimes referred to as ‘chronic asthma’.
- This section relates to all people who have asthma over 65 years of age.
