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What’s Up With Moira’s Grandad : Development of a comic book for children to explain older people’s experience of living with pain. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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