A recent article published in the Journal of Clinical Nursing a recent study evaluated “pain prevalence among community-dwelling older adults and explored the relationships between pain and physical and psychological parameters.” The study consisted of 173 older adults (average age= 73) who completed a 25 minute interview that assessed pain intensity, happiness, and physical quality of life. The authors found that “nonpharmacological methods were commonly used by older persons as pain relief and that older persons with pain were less happy, less mobile and had a poorer quality of life as compared to their counterparts without pain.”
