Cognitive Dysfunction and Depression May Decrease Activities in Daily Life More Strongly Than Pain in Community‐Dwelling Elderly Adults Living With Persistent Pain

Abstract

In home-dwelling elderly people, chronic pain states do not seem to reduce daily activities as much as cognitive dysfunction and depression. The seemingly controversial finding of a positive correlation between daily activities and pain in motion, and lack of correlation with pain at rest, may be explained by a relatively low intensity of pain in our study people.