The National Institutes of Health has approved a continuation award for Dr. Luciana Lagana’s research project entitled “A preliminary model of physical pain among community-dwelling multiethnic older women.” This is a four-year investigation to study the experience of physical pain in older age. This effort is the latest addition to the list of many research projects completed by Lagana in the areas of women’s health and ethnogeriatrics. “My research team is very dedicated to helping older women voice their often-neglected needs regarding their physical pain and related psychosocial difficulties,” she said. “Unfortunately, many older women from ethnic minorities are typically under-treated for pain compared to their European-American counterpart, although the latter also often report under-management of their physical pain by their medical professionals,” stated Lagana. “To my knowledge, we have little or no information regarding what older women living with pain are doing in terms of medical collaboration with their physicians and engagement in medically advised health behaviors that could contribute to lower their pain levels,” she added.
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