What’s Up With Moira’s Grandad: Development of a comic book for children to explain older people’s experience of living with pain.On behalf of the EOPIC Team: Professor Denis Martin1, Dr Derek Jones2, Dr Pat Schofield3, Dr Paul McNamee4, Geraldine Anthony4, Dr Amanda Clarke2, Professor Blair Smith5 1 Teesside University Institute of Health & Social Care, 2, Northumbria University 3 University of Greenwich, 4 University of Aberdeen Centre of Academic Primary Care & Health Economics Research Unit, 5University of Dundee.

LLHWShowcase2012

Edinburgh

Engaging Older People and their carers to develop Interventions for the self-

management of Chronic painEOPIC This study was funded by

LLHW initiative MRC Award Ref G0900684/2

rationale for the book

EOPIC aim: identify issues of importance to older people with chronic pain and produce materials to facilitate their self-management.

What’s up with Moira’s Grandad?

a comic book/graphic novel, which explains, for younger people, how chronic pain affects an older person.

developed from research Phase 1,2,3 work:

Grandparenting forms a significant part of the perceived social role of some older people with chronic pain.

Chronic pain can affect the grandparent-grandchild relationship.

Grandparents expressed desire for their grandchildren to have a better understanding of how chronic pain affects them.

themes addressed in the book

relationship disharmony

neurophysiology psychosocial impact

management & self-management

communication problems

improving relationship