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[Quality of life and pain in hospitalized geriatric patients]

W Pipam¹, H Penz, H Janig

¹Landeskrankenhaus Klagenfurt, St. Veiter Strasse 4, Klagenfurt, Osterreich. wolfgang.pipam@lkh-klu.at

Schmerz (Berlin, Germany)

|November 13, 2007

Abstract

Background:

To determine objective and subjective indications of quality of life in hospitalized geriatric patients.

Methods:

Data were collected on 267 items using standardized interviews of 90 patients, including B-L and SF-36.

Results:

In comparison to the control population, geriatric patients have worse SF-36 values; 91% have pain, and 63% depression and elevated B-L values. Pain therapy is usually with non-opiates and with warm/cold physical therapies.

Conclusion:

Pain therapy in the geriatric population surveyed does not reach the same standard as is usually offered to hospitalized medical and surgical patients.

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