Assessing Pain in Older Adults: Caregivers play a key role in recognizing and documenting pain at home

Ann L Horgas¹, Patricia Bruckenthal, Shaoshuai Chen+3

• ¹Ann L. Horgas is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Biobehavioral Nursing Science at the University of Florida College of Nursing in Gainesville. Patricia Bruckenthal is a professor, associate dean for nursing research and innovation, and chair of doctoral studies in the School of Nursing at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY. Shaoshuai Chen is a doctoral student in the College of Nursing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where Keela A. Herr is the Kelting Professor in Nursing, associate dean for faculty, and codirector of the Csomay Center for Gerontological Excellence. Heather M. Young is a professor and founding dean emerita in the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California Davis in Sacramento, and national director of the Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators. Scott Fishman is a professor, the Fullerton Endowed Chair in Pain Medicine, and executive vice chair in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of California Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, where he is also director of the Center for Advancing Pain Relief. This article was funded by the Mayday Fund and the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation. Contact author: Ann L. Horgas, ahorgas@ufl.edu . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.