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Pain increases in prevalence from early adult years to approximately 60 years. Thereafter it seems likely that pain complaint reaches a plateau and may even decline in extreme old age. Pain in older people is demonstrably different to that experienced in younger adults, but if all the dimensions of the pain are recognised, it can be treated as effectively.
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Robert D. Helme (1998) studied this question.
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