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Specific Conditions Causing Persistent Pain in Older Adults

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The observation that there may be more people over the age of 65 alive today than the total number who have ever reached that age is a stunning testament to our success at increasing longevity. However, with increasing numbers of elders comes the challenge of maintaining their quality of life. It is a fact of aging that chronic medical conditions will accrue, some of which may progress to chronic pain states. Persistent pain has become a chronic disease itself, like diabetes or hypertension.

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  1. Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA

    Charles E. Argoff

  2. Albany Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Albany, NY, USA

    Ravneet Bhullar

  3. Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Katherine Galluzzi

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  1. Optum, Complex Care Management, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Grace A. Cordts

  2. Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Paul J. Christo

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Argoff, C.E., Bhullar, R., Galluzzi, K. (2019). Specific Conditions Causing Persistent Pain in Older Adults. In: Cordts, G., Christo, P. (eds) Effective Treatments for Pain in the Older Patient. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8827-3_5

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