| 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
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| 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 '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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