Overview
- Editors:
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David I. Mostofsky
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Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, USA
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Jacob Lomranz
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The Herczeg Institute on Aging, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Biobehavioral Issues in Geriatric Pain
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- Jacob Lomranz, David I. Mostofsky
Pages 3-18
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- Shlomo Yehuda, Ralph L. Carasso
Pages 19-35
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- Lucy Gagliese, Ronald Melzack
Pages 69-96
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- Paula A. Quatromoni, Barbara E. Millen
Pages 97-127
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- Nancy Wells, Merrie Kaas, Karen Feldt
Pages 129-151
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Psychosocial and Psychodynamic Aspects
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Front Matter
Pages 153-153
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- Boaz Kahana, Eva Kahana, Kevan Namazi, Kyle Kercher, Kurt Stange
Pages 185-206
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Clinical Management and Techniques
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Front Matter
Pages 239-239
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- Robert D. Helme, Mark Bradbeer, Benny Katz, Stephen J. Gibson
Pages 241-266
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- Nathan I. Cherny, Beth Popp
Pages 267-307
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- Jonathan A. Ship, Marc W. Heft, Stephen W. Harkins
Pages 321-346
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- C. Zvi Fuchs, Leonard D. Zaichkowsky
Pages 347-364
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, USA
David I. Mostofsky
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The Herczeg Institute on Aging, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Jacob Lomranz