Pain in Older Persons (Progress in Pain Research and Management, Volume 35) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0931092590 ISBN 13: 9780931092596

Publisher: Intl Assn for the Study of Pain, 2005

Synopsis

This volume highlights major new accomplishments in such areas as the neurobiology of pain, age-related psychological and cognitive differences in pain perception, and the assessment of pain in cognitively intact and cognitively impaired older persons. Treatments such as oral analgesics, physical therapy techniques, cognitive-behavioral therapy, complementary and alternative medicine applications, and multidisciplinary pain management clinics are discussed, as are low back pain, neuropathic pain, postoperative pain, and end-of-life issues. This volume not only will help to update the field as a whole, but will also stimulate new thinking and development in this critical area.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen J. Gibson, BBSc(Hon), PhD, MAPsS, is Deputy Director of the National Ageing Research Institute (Australia), Director of Research at the Caulfield Pain Management and Research Centre, Associate Professor within the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, and a representative of older persons at institutional human ethics review committees.
Debra K. Weiner, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is a geriatrician, rheumatologist, acupuncturist, and Director of the Older Adult Pain Management Program at the University of Pittsburgh's Pain Evaluation and Treatment Institute.

Review:

Pain in Older Persons is one-stop shopping for researchers and clinicians who want a single up-to-date source of information on a wide variety of topics related to pain in older adults. I recommend it for the library (and active use) of all pain researchers and clinicians. --Judith A. Turner, PhD, in APS Bulletin, Issue 1, 2007

Overall, this is a well organized, well written, and comprehensive book that meets the stated goals of the authors. It will be useful to all healthcare providers involved in caring for older adults and would also make a welcome addition to any academic library. Additionally, it would be a good reference for academicians who teach advanced courses in pain management and/or geriatric pharmacotherapy. --Carlos Rojas-Fernandez BSc(Pharm) PharmD BCPP, The Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 2006 July/August, Volume 40

The recurrent message of the book is that aging and pain are not synonymous, although attitudes of patient, carers and, alas, clinicians may incline this way, so that some patients who could be helped by better management may suffer unnecessarily. [...]There are few books, [sic] which focus on the management of pain in older persons. Despite my initial reservations regarding the repetitive features of the opening chapters, taken as a whole, I would recommend the book as a reference volume on this subject. It is up to date with references as recent as 2005 and gives pointers towards the modernization of services for the care of pain in the elderly community. --L.E. Shutt in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, 96 (5): 671-3 (2006)

Overall, this is a well organized, well written, and comprehensive book that meets the stated goals of the authors. It will be useful to all healthcare providers involved in caring for older adults and would also make a welcome addition to any academic library. Additionally, it would be a good reference for academicians who teach advanced courses in pain management and/or geriatric pharmacotherapy. --Carlos Rojas-Fernandez BSc(Pharm) PharmD BCPP, The Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 2006 July/August, Volume 40

The recurrent message of the book is that aging and pain are not synonymous, although attitudes of patient, carers and, alas, clinicians may incline this way, so that some patients who could be helped by better management may suffer unnecessarily. [...]There are few books, [sic] which focus on the management of pain in older persons. Despite my initial reservations regarding the repetitive features of the opening chapters, taken as a whole, I would recommend the book as a reference volume on this subject. It is up to date with references as recent as 2005 and gives pointers towards the modernization of services for the care of pain in the elderly community. --L.E. Shutt in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, 96 (5): 671-3 (2006)

About this edition

• Publisher: Intl Assn for the Study of Pain
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0931092590
• ISBN 13: 9780931092596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Gibson Stephen, Weiner Debra K. M.D.