Pain in dementia

Sandra M.G. Zwakhalen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49832-4_7

Pain in dementia

Sandra M.G. Zwakhalen^*

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Pain in dementia is a frequent occurring problem. This chapter provides insight in the challenges and opportunities of assessing and managing pain in older people with dementia. The patient's self-report reflects the older persons' subjective experience of pain the best. However due to the communicative and cognitive problems, the use of self-report is often restricted. Therefore a variety of observational pain assessment tools have been developed to optimize the assessment and registration of pain. The chapter furthermore discusses the use of interventions developed to relieve the pain in older people with dementia.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Dementia in Nursing Homes
Editors	Christa Lohrmann , Sandra Schüssler
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	77-87
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319498324
ISBN (Print)	9783319498300
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49832-4_7
Publication status	Published - 19 May 2017

Keywords

Assessment
Behavior
Management
Pain
Tools

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