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1. 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 Universityof Greenwich, 4 University of Aberdeen Centre of Academic Primary Care & Health Economics Research Unit, 5University of Dundee. LLHW Showcase 2012 Edinburgh themes addressed in the book 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. relationship disharmony neurophysiology psychosocial impact 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. management & self-management communication problems improving relationship Engaging Older People and their carers to develop Interventions for the self-management of Chronic pain This study was funded by LLHW initiativeMRC Award Ref G0900684/2 EOPIC