Managing Pain in the Older Adult

Pharmaceutical agents are not generally tested in this population, leaving health care providers to "start low and go slow," in order to avoid adverse reactions when prescribing new medications, particularly pain medications.

From her experience in critical care and neuroscience nursing and work as a GNP, Dr. Jansen will focus on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of acute and chronic pain among older adults with interventional, noninterventional, pharmacotherapeutic, and nonpharmacotherapeutic methods.