Dong HJ, et al. - Researchers examined older adults suffering from chronic pain in order to assess the factors that decide their life satisfaction with respect to socio-demographics, lifestyle behaviors, pain, and comorbidities. In this cross-sectional study, a random sample of people ≥ 65 years old living in south-eastern Sweden (N = 6,611) was administered a postal survey addressing pain aspects and health experiences. They used three domains from the Life Satisfaction Questionnaire (LiSat-11) to obtain the individual’s estimations of overall satisfaction (LiSat-life), somatic health (LiSat-somhealth), and psychological health (LiSat-psychhealth). Respondents with chronic pain (2,790, 76.2± 7.4 years old) inscribed lower life satisfaction, however, the difference from their peers without chronic pain was trivial, except for satisfaction with somatic health. They observed an inverse association of severe pain and pain spreading with all three domains of the LiSat-11. Further, they identified negative effects of current smoking, alcohol overconsumption, and obesity on one or more domains of the LiSat-11. Negative relation of most comorbidities to LiSat-somhealth was evident, and there were some comorbidities that affected the other two domains. For example, both LiSat-life and LiSat-somhealth are negatively affected by having tumor or cancer. Both for LiSat-life and LiSat-psychhealth, anxiety or depression disorders had a negative relationship.