ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2023
Impact of persistent pain on function, cognition, and well-being of older adults.
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- Validation of a quality-of-life measure for older people using urgent and emergency care.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2025Article
- Chronic pain and subjective memory problems are dynamic risk factors for functional decline: An ACTIVE longitudinal study.Experimental gerontology · 2025Article
- Association between chronic gastrointestinal diseases and frailty: unveiling the mediating effect of loneliness.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Do Physical Activities Prevent the Occurrence of Bothersome Pain?Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2025Article
- High-impact chronic pain and cognitive decline among Mexicans aged 60 and older from 2012 to 2018.The journal of pain · 2025Article
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- Activities of daily living limitations in relation to the presence of pain in community-dwelling older adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The association between age and acute pain sensitivity in patients with Herpes Zoster.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Editorial: Pain and relationships.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundWe sought to determine the population-level associations between persistent pain and subsequent changes in physical function, cognitive function, and well-being, outcomes important to older adults.
methodsWe used data from National Health Aging Trends Study (NHATS) of community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries age 65+ from 2011 to 2019. We defined "persistent pain" as being bothered by pain in the last month in both the 2011and 2012 interviews and "intermittent" pain including those reporting bothersome pain in one interview only. We used competing risks regression to estimate the association between persistent pain and the development of clinically meaningful declines in physical function, cognitive function, and well-being, adjusting for age, sex, race, education, and marital status at baseline.
resultsOf the 5589 eligible NHATS participants, 38.7% reported persistent pain and 27.8% reported intermittent pain. Over one-third described pain in five or more sites. Over the subsequent 7 years, participants with persistent pain were more likely to experience declines in physical function (64% persistent pain, 59% intermittent pain, 57% no bothersome pain; aHR 1.14, 95% CI 1.05-1.23) and well-being (48% persistent pain, 45% intermittent pain, 44% no bothersome pain; aHR 1.11, 95% CI 1.01-1.21), but were not more likely to experience cognitive decline (25% persistent pain, 24% intermittent pain, 23% no bothersome pain; aHR 1.02, 95% CI 0.90-1.16).
conclusionsPersistent pain is common in older adults and occurs in multiple body sites. Persistent pain contributes to meaningful declines in physical function and well-being over 7 years and warrants proactive interventions to mitigate pain.
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