| 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 |
| BPS Council Member Liaison |
Dr Nick Allcock |
| 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
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| Any other news |
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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