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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Aung, Steven K. H.,; Bakal, Donald,; Cook, Andrew,; Crook, Joan M.,; Ferrell, Betit,; Harkins, S. W.,; Lagua, Belinda T.,; Meiring, Peter,; Melding, Pamela,; Price, D. D.,; Rivera, Lynne M.,; Ross, Margaret M.,; Roy, Ranjan,; Small, Ralph E.,; Sorkin, Bruce A.,; Stokes, Elaine,; Thomas, Michael,; Turk, Dennis C.,; Vandendries, Guy,
• HerausgeberIn: Roy, Ranjan,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

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 tre...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Contributors
• Section 1. Social, Psychological, and Epidemiological Issues
• 1. Pain in Later Life: Present State of Knowledge
• 2. Attitudes, Beliefs, and Illness Behaviour
• 3. Pain among Healthy Elderly Individuals
• 4. Pain Management in the Elderly
• Section 2. Family Issues
• 5. Chronic Pain, the Elderly, and Family Therapy
• 6. Cancer Pain: Impact on Elderly Patients and Their Family Caregivers
• Section 3. Psychological and Medical Interventions
• 7. Geriatric Pain
• 8. The Combined Forces of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine to Treat Pain in the Elderly
• 9. A Comprehensive Approach to Pain Management in the Elderly: A Personal View
• 10. Psychiatric Aspects of Chronic Pain in the Elderly
• 11. Somatic Awareness and Pain Management