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KMID : 1037820160050010006
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Journal of Pain and Autonomic Disorders
2016 Volume.5 No. 1 p.6 ~ p.10
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Chronic Pain Management in the Older Person
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Lee Dong-Kuck
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Abstract
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As patients age, the incidence and prevalence of various pain syndromes increase. But the pain in the elderly patients are frequently underreported or underestimated as the patients incorrectly believe the pain as a normal process of aging. Unfortunately due to the difficulties in assessing pain in geriatric patients, the complexities of multiple comorbidities, and the high prevalence of polypharmacy, many doctors have difficulty with treating or managing pain aggressively in the elderly patients. So it is important to have a physiological understanding of pain and the effects of the general and adjunctive therapeutic agents for the safe and effective management of pain. Therefore pain specialists must have a broad range of understanding and knowledge about the physiologic and pharmacologic changes that occur in the elderly patients.
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KEYWORD
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Pain, Elderly patients
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