title: Pain Assessment with Cognitively Impaired Older People in the Acute Hospital Setting.
abstract: Research reveals that older people continue to experience much suffering from acute and chronic pain conditions.People with cognitive impairment receive less analgesia than their cognitively intact peers.Postoperative pain assessment with older people in the acute hospital setting remains a challenge.Context and culture have a significant impact of pain assessment practices.Due to a paucity of research exploring how pain assessment and management practices with cognitively impaired older people may be realised in the acute hospital setting, there is a need for further research to be conducted.
authors.affiliation: Senior Nurse Acute/Chronic Pain Service Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, 2nd Floor West Wing, Royal Victoria Hospital, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, BT12 6BA.
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Brown
keywords: cognitive disorders; pain; pain assessment; pain nursing