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Handbook of Pain and Aging

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Editors:
  1. David I. Mostofsky

    1. Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, USA

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  2. Jacob Lomranz

    1. The Herczeg Institute on Aging, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Part of the book series: The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging (SSAD)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Biobehavioral Issues in Geriatric Pain

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Psychology of Pain and Suffering

      • Jacob Lomranz, David I. Mostofsky
      Pages 3-18
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    3. A Brief History of Pain Perception and Pain Tolerance in Aging

      • Shlomo Yehuda, Ralph L. Carasso
      Pages 19-35
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    4. Chronic Morbidity and Disability in the U.S. Elderly Populations

      • Kenneth G. Manton
      Pages 37-67
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    5. The Assessment of Pain in the Elderly

      • Lucy Gagliese, Ronald Melzack
      Pages 69-96
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    6. Nutrition, Disability, and Health in the Older Population

      • Paula A. Quatromoni, Barbara E. Millen
      Pages 97-127
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    7. Managing Pain in the Institutionalized Elderly

      • Nancy Wells, Merrie Kaas, Karen Feldt
      Pages 129-151
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  3. Psychosocial and Psychodynamic Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. Rehabilitating the Elderly in Return to Work

      • Karen Jacobs
      Pages 155-165
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    3. Coping with Pain in Old Age

      • Pamela S. Melding
      Pages 167-184
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    4. The Role of Pain in the Cascade from Chronic Illness to Social Disability and Psychological Distress in Late Life

      • Boaz Kahana, Eva Kahana, Kevan Namazi, Kyle Kercher, Kurt Stange
      Pages 185-206
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    5. Pain and Psychological Function in Late Life

      • Patricia A. Parmelee
      Pages 207-226
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    6. Hypnosis and Pain Relief for Older Persons

      • Nicholas A. Covino
      Pages 227-238
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  4. Clinical Management and Techniques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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    2. Management of Chronic Nonmalignant Pain in the Elderly

      • Robert D. Helme, Mark Bradbeer, Benny Katz, Stephen J. Gibson
      Pages 241-266
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    3. Cancer Pain in the Elderly

      • Nathan I. Cherny, Beth Popp
      Pages 267-307
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    4. Pain in Osteoporosis and Paget’s Disease in the Elderly

      • Jacob Menczel
      Pages 309-319
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    5. Oral Facial Pain in the Elderly

      • Jonathan A. Ship, Marc W. Heft, Stephen W. Harkins
      Pages 321-346
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    6. Exercise in Aging and Pain Control

      • C. Zvi Fuchs, Leonard D. Zaichkowsky
      Pages 347-364
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About this book

From time to time, professional journals and edited volumes devote some of their pages to considerations of pain and aging as they occur among the aged in different cultures and populations. One starts from several reasonable assumptions, among them that aging per se is not a disease process, yet the risk and frequency of disease processes increase with ongoing years. The physical body's functioning and ability to restore all forms of damage and insult slow down, the immune system becomes compromised, and the slow-growing pathologies reach their critical mass in the later years. The psychological body also becomes weaker, with unfulfilled promises and expectations, and with tragedies that visit individuals and families, and the prospect that whatever worlds remain to be conquered will most certainly not be met with success in the rapidly passing days and years that can only culminate in death. Despair and depression coupled with infirmity and sensory and! or motor inefficiency aggravate both the threshold and the tolerance for discomfort and synergistically collaborate to perpetuate a vicious cycle in which the one may mask the other. Although the clinician is armed with the latest advances in medicine and phar­ macology, significant improvement continues to elude her or him. The geriatric specialist, all too familiar with such realities, usually can offer little else than a hortative to "learn to live with it," but the powers and effectiveness of learning itself have declined.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, USA

    David I. Mostofsky

  • The Herczeg Institute on Aging, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Jacob Lomranz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Pain and Aging

  • Editors: David I. Mostofsky, Jacob Lomranz

  • Series Title: The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0283-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45458-5Published: 30 November 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0285-6Published: 07 August 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0283-2Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1566-709X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 395

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology

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