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Handbook of Pain and Aging

Handbook of Pain and Aging

Mostofsky, David I.
Lomranz, Jacob

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Series: The Springer Adult Development and Aging

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 1489902856
ISBN13: 9781489902856
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 7 2013
Pages: 395
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.84 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
From time to time, professional journals and edited volumes devote some of their pages to considerations of pain and aging as they occur among the aged in different cultures and populations. One starts from several reasonable assumptions, among them that aging per se is not a disease process, yet the risk and frequency of disease processes increase with ongoing years. The physical body's functioning and ability to restore all forms of damage and insult slow down, the immune system becomes compromised, and the slow-growing pathologies reach their critical mass in the later years. The psychological body also becomes weaker, with unfulfilled promises and expectations, and with tragedies that visit individuals and families, and the prospect that whatever worlds remain to be conquered will most certainly not be met with success in the rapidly passing days and years that can only culminate in death. Despair and depression coupled with infirmity and sensory and! or motor inefficiency aggravate both the threshold and the tolerance for discomfort and synergistically collaborate to perpetuate a vicious cycle in which the one may mask the other. Although the clinician is armed with the latest advances in medicine and phar- macology, significant improvement continues to elude her or him. The geriatric specialist, all too familiar with such realities, usually can offer little else than a hortative to learn to live with it, but the powers and effectiveness of learning itself have declined.

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