Nearly 97 percent needed assistance when climbing stairs and 65 percent needed help to dress their lower extremities. The study also showed that older people who have this fairly significant disability appear to be less depressed than the younger back pain sufferers. They seem to have less fear of pain, Haig says, and fewer of them are psychologically dysfunctional compared to younger people. Older people's lives could be more flexible. But their ability to adapt to pain can mean that they suffer more than they need to.
Nobody does anything about it until it begins to affect their basic survival skills.
A lot of people assume that what's wrong with you dictates what you can do. That's not true. We know that people with the same problems can do different things. If there's not a cure, they need to look for rehabilitation. Elderly back pain can be caused by a variety of factors.