Around 100 million Americans live with persistent pain, more Americans than are affected by diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined.
Aging with Ease: A Positive Approach to Pain Management
Published December 1, 2009
This brochure gives a brief overview of how to recognize, understand, and safely treat pain. It includes advice from the American Geriatrics Society’s 2009 guidelines for controlling persistent pain in older people.
Health care professionals may also want to download our Practical Facts for Assessing and Treating Pain in older patients fact sheet.