| 书目名称 | Handbook of Pain and Aging |
| 编辑 | David I. Mostofsky,Jacob Lomranz |
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| 丛书名称 | The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging |
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| 描述 | 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 |
| 出版日期 | Book 1997 |
| 关键词 | assessment; coping; management; pain; pharmacology; psychology; stress; treatment |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0283-2 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-1-4899-0285-6 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-1-4899-0283-2Series ISSN 1566-709X |
| issn_series | 1566-709X |
| copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997 |
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