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Papers: 14 May 2022 - 20 May 2022

RESEARCH TYPE:
Psychology


2022 May 03


Int J Environ Res Public Health


19


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Friendship in Later Life: How Friends Are Significant Resources in Older Persons’ Communication about Chronic Pain.

Authors

Semlali I, Merminod G, Weber O, Terrier A, Decosterd I, Rubli Truchard E, Singy P
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 May 03; 19(9).
PMID: 35564945.

Abstract

This 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.