ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Friendship in Later Life: How Friends Are Significant Resources in Older Persons' Communication about Chronic Pain.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Emotional Reactivity to Daily Physical Symptoms in Adulthood and Old Age: The Role of Different Facets of Social Support.Gerontology · 2026Article
- Association between diversified social interaction and health among older adults in China: a longitudinal analysis by interaction type and frequency.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Understanding Daily Care Experience Preferences Across the Lifespan of Older Adults: Application of Natural Language Processing.Western journal of nursing research · 2025Article
- Prenatal weight stigma can affect relationship quality and maternal health outcomes.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThis article focuses on how older persons perceive their friends' role in their daily experience of chronic pain. It reports part of the results of a study in which we interviewed 49 participants, aged 75 and older, about the way they communicate about chronic pain within their social network. METHODOLOGY: Using discourse and content analysis, we first examine older persons' definition of friendship, and then identify the various dimensions of friendship that are engaged in the communication about chronic pain.
resultsParticipants define close friends as people with whom they share intimacy and social proximity (same gender, age and experience of pain). These dimensions allow older persons to talk freely about their pain without the fear of being judged or rejected, particularly when it is related to a dynamic of reciprocity.
conclusionsThis article shows that the contribution of friends to the everyday life of older persons with chronic pain is mainly that of providing emotional support.
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