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

Dementia isn't a specific disease. Instead, it describes a collection of symptoms that affect a person's thinking and social abilities enough to interfere with daily life. There are more than ...

Saliva: A means to detect pain in people with dementia Date: December 12, 2023 Source: University of Córdoba Summary: A research team has determined the presence of two pain biomarkers and their ...

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 ...

While memory loss and disorientation are common symptoms of dementia, one shouldn't ignore the hand symptom showing up at a ...

Naming this hurt as dementia relationship dissonance allows you to recognize that your pain isn’t a personal failing. It’s a shared, recognized phenomenon—freeing you from guilt and shame .

AIDS dementia complex is caused by the HIV virus itself, not by the opportunistic infections that commonly occur in advanced HIV. We do not know exactly how the virus damages brain cells. HIV may ...

When patients cannot verbalize their pain, the pain assessment instrument Abbey Pain Scale is sometimes used instead—but it does not work for patients with cancer, according to a thesis.

We call them the 5 Ps: pills, pneumonia, pain, urinary tract infection (UTI), and constipation. But often, the decline is simply due to advancing dementia. Dementia doesn’t plateau.

A new study has shown that pain in people with dementia when admitted to hospital is underreported, which leads to symptoms worsening.. Pain is commonly under-detected and under-treated in people with ...