Chronic Pain in Old Age : An Integrated Biopsychosocial Perspective / Ranjan Roy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roy, Ranjan, Editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pain in old age.

Chronic pain.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The volume is loosely divided into three overlapping sections. The first addresses social, psychological, and epidemiological issues. The second section deals with family issues, including their role in pain management. The final section addresses psychological and medical interventions.

Chronic pain is a daily fact of life for many elderly people. The pain is often seen as a product of age, and is only too readily accepted as inevitable by patient and physician. This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive biopsychosocial approach to address the complex symptoms and treatment of chronic pain in the elderly. The nineteen contributors come from many disciplines, including psychology, medicine, social work, physical therapy, and nursing. Their primary objective is to improve the quality of pain management for seniors, but they also urge readers to examine their own attitudes and beliefs about elderly patients, to avoid the pitfalls of ageism and to refrain from using age to rationalize inaction.

Contents:

Sect. 1. Social, Psychological, and Epidemiological Issues. 1. Pain in Later Life: Present State of Knowledge / Margaret M. Ross and Joan M. Crook. 2. Attitudes, Beliefs, and Illness Behaviour / Andrew Cook and Ranjan Roy. 3. Pain among Healthy Elderly Individuals / Michael Thomas. 4. Pain Management in the Elderly / Bruce A. Sorkin and Dennis C. Turk

Sect. 2. Family Issues. 5. Chronic Pain, the Elderly, and Family Therapy / Ranjan Roy. 6. Cancer Pain: Impact on Elderly Patients and Their Family Caregivers / Betty Ferrell and Lynne M. Rivera

Sect. 3. Psychological and Medical Interventions. 7. Geriatric Pain / S.W. Harkins, Belinda T. Lagua, D.D. Price and Ralph E. Small. 8. The Combined Forces of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine to Treat Pain in the Elderly / Steven K.H. Aung. 9. A Comprehensive Approach to Pain Management in the Elderly: A Personal View / Guy Vandendries. 10. Psychiatric Aspects of Chronic Pain in the Elderly / Pamela Melding.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8038-X

OCLC:

1114832320