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Older Adults Have Pain Too
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 w...
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