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Pain in Older People SIG

Chair Dr Pat Schofield
Contact Details

Senior Lecturer
Centre for Advanced Studies in Nursing
Department of General Practice and Primary Care
University of Aberdeen
Foresterhill Health Centre
Westburn Road
Aberdeen AB25 2AY

Email: p.a.schofield@abdn.ac.uk

Officers  
Year formed 2007
Number of members 27
Nature of SIG Clinical Practice, research and education around pain in older people
Description of Activities
and Scientific Focus
  • to increase awareness and promote education about pain in older persons
  • to provide a national and interdisciplinary forum for people interested in clinical and research questions on pain in older persons
  • to develop/endorse best practice guidelines for assessment and management of pain in older persons
    to promote discussion and research on pain in older persons, including:
    - senescence of pain perception
    - multidimensional assessment of pain and its consequences
    - pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of pain
    - uniqueness of the pain experience in patients with cognitive impairment
  • to facilitate the development of international collaborative research efforts on pain in older persons
Current work  
Forthcoming Events

 

Any other news

To download a copy of the presentations from the 'Clinical versus patients preferred management: An overview of the management of pain in older adults' workshop at the 2009 ASM, please click the relevant link below.

To download a copy of the minutes from the recent SIG meeting of 17th April 2008, please click here

To download a copy of the presentations from the Pain in Older People Studay Day, on 23rd January 2008, please click the relevant link below:

- Chronic pain as a cause of falls in older people, Dr Suzanne Leveille
- Assessing pain in advanced dementia, Dr Alice Jordan

To download a copy of the presentations from the 'Pain in older people: launch of the Special Interest Group' session at the 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting, which was held in Glasgow on Thursday 26 April, please click the relevant link below:

-Pain in older people, Dr Beverly Collett
-Pain in Older People SIG, Dr Pat Schofield

 

 
 

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