Medication Management of Persistent Pain in Older Adults -- Resources Available
Colleagues,
Many are not aware that in 2009 The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) published an update version of its Clinical Practice Guidelines (2002) on the management of persistent pain in older adults. Several terrific links to free AGS-sponsored related resources including the 2009 update are below:
The Durham Chronic Pain Collaborative has an annotated reference list of over 40 resources including screening tools, pain scales, presentations, pain management care models, guidelines, and toolkits.
Our acute care statistics speak for themselves: since utilizing COLLAGE, hospitalizations dropped across two years from 173 to 137; pain as a reason for hospital admission dropped from 11 to 4. This is very significant."
-- Karri Sears, Director of Wellness Alexian Village of Milwaukee, WI
"COLLAGE is a gigantic program for us. It gave me a chance to analyze what has happened in my life, what is going on today and will continue to give me hope for the future. COLLAGE gave me an opportunity to rethink my life. I feel lucky -- life isn't easy but because I'm here there are opportunities to positively share and plan for the future."
Excerpts from COLLAGE Healthy Aging Conversations (15:09)
Robyn Stone, Executive Director, Institute for the Future of Aging Services (IFAS) talks about COLLAGE (2:17)
"COLLAGE focuses on an evidence-base, collecting good information, using good data to make better decisions, and gathering data and sharing data across organizations so that people really understand where they are improving and where they still need to do the work. There is no way to get to quality without engaging in the kind of work that COLLAGE allows organizations to do."
