Jemima T Collins, Rowan H Harwood, Alison Cowley, Claudio Di Lorito, Eamonn Ferguson, Marcos F Minicucci, Louise Howe, Tahir Masud, Giulia Ogliari, Rebecca O'Brien, Paula S Azevedo, David A Walsh, John R F Gladman
Pain is common in people with dementia, and pain can exacerbate the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. Effective pain management is challenging, not least in people with dementia. Impairments of cognition, communication and abstract thought can make communicating pain unreliable or impossible. It is unclear which biopsychosocial interventions for pain management are effective in people with dementia, and which interventions for behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia are effective in people with pain...
January 8, 2023: Age and Ageing