ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2023
Societal impact on older persons' chronic pain: Roles of age stereotypes, age attribution, and age discrimination.
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- The Impact of Ageism and Pain on Pandemic-Related Stress in Older Adults: A Structural Equation Modeling and Mediation Analysis.Journal of aging and health · 2026Article
- Exploring Demographic Differences in Postintubation Analgesia by Racial Group, Sex, and Age.The Journal of emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Dual Experience and Management of Pain in Older Adults and Their Caregivers.Clinics in geriatric medicine · 2026Review
- Clinical features and subgroup patterns in elderly and super-elderly TMD patients.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Perceptions of individual and societal onset of old age: associations with views on aging in a sample aged 16 to 96 years.European journal of ageing · 2025Article
- Negative Aging Stereotypes and Clinical Insomnia in Older U.S. Military Veterans.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- Examining the Direct and Mediated Associations Between Perceived Discrimination and Prescription Opioid Misuse Among Individuals with Chronic Pain.Stigma and health · 2024Article
- The Difficulties of Managing Pain in People Living with Frailty: The Potential for Digital Phenotyping.Drugs & aging · 2024Article
- The social context of burning mouth syndrome: an exploratory pilot study of stigma, discrimination, and pain.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2023Article
- Aging Stigma and the Health of US Adults Over 65: What Do We Know?Clinical interventions in aging · 2023Review
- A Narrative Review of the Current Research in Cancer-Related Pain Inequities: The Necessity of Applying Intersectionality to Advance Cancer Pain Research.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer CenterReview
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Abstract
rationaleIn view of the severity and prevalence of chronic pain, combined with the limited success of long-term treatments, there is the need for a more expansive understanding of its etiology. We therefore investigated over time three societal-based potential determinants of chronic pain that were previously unexamined in this connection: negative age stereotypes, age attribution, and age discrimination.
methodsThe cohort consisted of 1373 Americans aged 55 and older, who participated in four waves of the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study, spanning seven years.
resultsConsistent with the hypotheses, negative age stereotypes as well as age discrimination predicted chronic pain, and age attribution acted as a mediator between the negative age stereotypes and chronic pain. In a subset of participants who were free of chronic pain at baseline, those who had assimilated negative age stereotypes were 32% more likely to develop chronic pain in the next seven years than those who had assimilated positive age stereotypes.
conclusionOur finding that the three societal-based and modifiable predictors contributed to chronic pain refutes the widely held belief that chronic pain experienced in later life is entirely and inevitably a consequence of aging.
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