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

• 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

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.

• Drug handling and optimising analgesic drug therapy in the elderly, Dr Roger Knaggs
• Medication use in older people: experiences and views, Ms Fiona MacKichan

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