慢性疼痛更多的可能是机能下降的原因而不是一种症状。虽然老年人疼痛的感觉和反应较慢,但老年病人也一样能感到疼痛剧烈,只是他们较少象年轻病人那样诉说,他们可能假定你已经知道他的疼痛,并且认为疼痛在他们这个年龄是正常的。 Chronic pain is more likely to be a cause of decline than a symptom. Although seniors feel pain and respond more slowly, elderly patients can feel the same pain, except that they are less likely to complain as younger patients, who may assume that you already know his pain and think the pain is normal at their age of.