Both the Abbey Pain Scale and the PAINAD were developed in long-term care settings where staff have experience of caring for people with cognitive impairment and know their patients’ normal behaviours ...

The Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia Scale (PAINAD) was developed to assess pain and reduce the likelihood that it is unrecognized and untreated.

According to the company, PainChek can detect pain with over 90% accuracy and more than 180,000 pain assessments have been completed worldwide on over 66,000 people. The app was designed for use ...

When you’re in pain, you can usually tell someone about it. But for people with communication difficulties, that isn’t always an option, meaning pain often goes undetected, misinterpreted or ...

The Abbey pain scale for pain in patients with dementia. 23 April 2012. The Alzheimer's Society and Department of Health have developed a best practice tool with care plans to assist GPs in the ...

Assessment of pain in people with severe dementia is difficult, but by using observational measures (rather than relying on self-reporting) we may be able to make a reasonable assessment of pain ...

The understanding of how pain, as an experiential and behavioral phenomenon, is related to nociception has traditionally been hindered by two concepts: until the mid-1900s, the cerebral cortex was ...

From Care and Cure magazine, find out why pain in people with dementia is underreported in hospitals. A new study has shown that pain in people with dementia when admitted to hospital is underreported ...