ArticlePain medicine (Malden, Mass.)2020
Life Stressors: Elevations and Disparities Among Older Adults with Pain.
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- Sex Differences in the Prevalence of Chronic Pain in Mid-Life: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Stressors and Pain across the Late-Life Span: Findings from Two Parent Longitudinal Studies of Aging and Health.Journal of aging and health · 2023Article
- Differences in chronic pain prevalence between men and women at mid-life: a systematic review protocol.BMJ open · 2023Article
- The Relationship Between Pain, Function, Behavioral, and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia and Quality of Life.Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses · 2022Article
- Editorial: Chronic Pain and Health Disparities in Older Adults With Complex Needs.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- More Problems, More Pain: The Role of Chronic Life Stressors and Racial/Ethnic Identity on Chronic Pain Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in the United States.Chronic stress (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine stressor elevations among older adults with pain, and gender and race disparities in the dual burdens of late-life pain and stressors.
designCross-sectional.
settingCommunity. SUBJECTS: Participants in the Longitudinal Late-Life Health study (LLLH; N = 1,884) and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS; N = 7,704).
methodsPain and stressor measures were harmonized across the LLLH and HRS samples. Analyses of covariance were conducted to determine the effects of older adults' pain, gender, race, and interactions between these factors, on their stressors in nine separate life domains, and in stressors overall.
resultsIn both the LLLH and HRS samples, older adults with painful conditions (joint, back, headache, chest pain), more numerous painful conditions, more severe pain, and more pain interference had elevated stressors in all life domains, compared with older adults without or with less serious pain. Pain was more prevalent among women and nonwhites than men and whites. Stressor exposure was higher for men than women in most life domains; it was higher for nonwhites than whites in all life domains. For certain types of pain and life domains, pain and gender, as well as pain and race, interacted to predict stressor elevations.
conclusionsLate-life pain is associated with elevations in stressors, and there are gender and race disparities in the dual burdens of heightened pain and elevated stressors in later life. Pain and stressors are not consistently more strongly linked among older women than older men, or among older nonwhite than older white persons.
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