title: Pain and dementia: an overview of the literature.
abstract: This paper discusses how pain and its undertreatment impacts upon older people with dementia. It outlines how the contributing factors to the underassessment of pain are numerous and includes dementia-related factors (such as loss of communication ability) and health professional-related factors (such as inappropriate or non-application of a pain-assessment tool and deficit knowledge regarding pain mechanisms and/or dementia). Pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment options for pain are noted as important but are not the focus of this paper.
authors: Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
authors: Linda
authors: L
authors: McAuliffe
authors: Donna
authors: D
authors: Brown
authors: Deirdre
authors: D
authors: Fetherstonhaugh
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003704:Dementia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000451:nursing; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000451:nursing; D015995:Prevalence; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012112:Residential Facilities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*