The health care professions are all facing an aging and rising tide of baby boomers, and many of these patients are going to be suffering from chronic pain, for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, the elderly are often untreated or under-treated for pain. Patient and physician should each begin to ask themselves how can this situation might be improved.
Pain is a common complaint of the older patient, and as the population ages, frailty and chronic diseases associated with pain will...
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