The authors of a recent study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society evaluated “the effects of chronic pain on the development of disability and decline in physical performance over time in older adults.” The authors enrolled 634 community-dwelling older adults age 65 and older with arthritis. The authors found that “older community-dwelling adults living with chronic pain in multiple musculoskeletal locations have a substantially greater risk for developing disability over time and for clinically meaningful decline in mobility performance than those without pain.”
