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Handbook of Pain and Aging (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
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Handbook of Pain and Aging (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
Series: The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging
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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."
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