Older People Coping With Chronic Pain

ISBN-13: 9783838338965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 232 str.

Margaret Gartrell

Opis

The incidence of chronic pain is common among older people and often disabling. The experience of chronic pain is complex, highly individual and the manner in which it is expressed is varied. Styles adapting to chronic pain conditions are diverse, ranging from positive adjustment ("coping") to less functional adaptations, with the latter being referred to as "stoicism" and "catastrophising". This research was undertaken to investigate how the experience of chronic pain is constructed by older people who are coping and by nurses working with older people. The implications for nursing practice were pivotal to the project. Interviews and questionnaires were conducted to identify, through content and thematic analysis, the constructs used. Older people also completed questionnaires that presented a range of assessment tools, which were trialed and commented on. Nurses attitudes towards older people experiencing pain were also surveyed.

O autorze

Dr Margaret Gartrell has 32 years experience in nursing, the majority of which has been in aged care.She has studied extensively in the field of Gerontology. Her academic work published here was submitted as part of the requirements for sucessfully fulfilling a Professional Doctorate.