Assessment of acute and chronic pain in older adults.
Accurate pain detection and assessment preserves functional status and independence in older adults. Pain should not be an expected outcome of the "normal" aging process. Chronic pain behaviors are less recognizable and less easily detected by health care providers and family members resulting in minimal correlation between caregiver evaluation of pain and the intensities reported by patients.
Forrest
J
J
D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000451:nursing; D010147:Pain Measurement