The management of chronic pain in older persons

Article Abstract:

Health care for older persons should include an assessment for chronic pain, and patients in pain should receive comprehensive assessment and mitigation. The use of synonyms for pain, such as burning, discomfort, and soreness, may illicit evidence of chronic pain in older patients. Evaluation of prescription, over-the-counter, and herbal medications should be included in patient assessment, as well as psychosocial evaluation. Opioid medications are underutilized in older patients. Exercise, non-drug therapies, and pain medication may be useful in managing pain.

Reports, American Geriatrics Society

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The experience of living-dying in a nursing home: self-reports of black and white older adults

Article Abstract:

A study has been carried out to describe/compare experiences, priorities, needs, and concerns reported by white and black nursing home residents in the living-dying interval, the time between acquiring knowledge of impending death and death itself. Both groups concentrated on the quality of living, not on dying. Black subjects may have been undertreated for pain, but important care needs for pain and religion are not routinely addressed by the Resident Assessment Protocol and Minimum Data Set triggers.

Pain, Pain management, Religion, Nursing homes, Geriatrics, Whites, Blacks, Long-term care facilities, Long term care facilities, Black race

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Pain management in older adults: prevention and treatment

Article Abstract:

This article examines current strategies and techniques used to manage chronic pain in elderly patients. New advances in alternative medicines, pain assessment tools, pharmacologic interventions, and terminal care strategies provide new approaches to help prevent and manage pain in elderly patients.

United States, Opioids

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