Online Continuing Education Courses

Pain the Elderly

• Outline how the pain experience differs with age
• Explore and differentiate particular conditions that commonly cause pain among middle-aged and older people
• Examine difference in pain report and coping strategies among people of different age groups
• Assess how age-related changes in neurophysiology may alter the pain experience
• Explain how the pain experience is unique for older people in special populations, such as those with dementia
• Compare ways to approach the assessment of pain in elderly persons