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The Challenges of Pain Assessment in Geriatric Patients With Dementia: A Review.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Individualizing Perioperative Analgesia: Patient-Specific Determinants of Postoperative Pain and Opioid-Related Outcomes.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Nurses' experiences with assessing pain in patients with dementia in nursing homes: a qualitative study.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- The association of chronic pain with suicidality in hospitalized patients with dementia: a retrospective study of the U.S. Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 2016-2020.Innovation in aging · 2026Article
- Evaluating Alzheimer's disease with the TMS-EEG perturbation complexity index.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
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- Factors Associated with the Variation in Drug Prescription of Analgesics in Long-Term Care Facilities: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- The burden of acute pain in the U.S. in the wake of the opioid crisis.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Assessment of Inflammatory Scores in Severity Prediction for Elderly Patients with Odontogenic Infections.Dentistry journal · 2024Article
- Hematological Malignancies in Older Patients: Focus on the Potential Role of a Geriatric Assessment Management.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Virtual reality for interventional radiology patients: a preliminary study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024Article
- Incorporation of "Artificial Intelligence" for Objective Pain Assessment: A Comprehensive Review.Pain and therapy · 2024Review
- Pain in non-communicative older adults beyond dementia: a narrative review.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Review
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9 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Pain in dementia patients is common, poorly measured, and undertreated. It is important to discuss the challenges in the pain assessment and management to find a possible solution for adequate pain management. The aim of this article is to discuss the challenges in the assessment of pain in geriatric patients with dementia. An extensive online database search was conducted via multiple websites using the following keywords: "dementia," "pain assessments," "pain assessment with dementia," "causes of pain with dementia," "pain assessments using recent technology," "geriatric," and "old age" to identify the relevant articles. Our inclusion criteria were articles that focused on pain in geriatric patients diagnosed with dementia, in English, published between January 2018 and January 2023, and available as free full text and those which were clinical trials, observational studies, review articles, systemic reviews, meta-analysis, or case series. The exclusion criteria were articles that did not have pain in geriatric patients diagnosed with dementia as their primary focus, involving geriatric or non-geriatric patients with major psychological distress, not in the English language, not published between January 2018 and January 2023, and not available as free full-text and those which were case reports and editorial articles. After manually excluding the articles that did not meet our inclusion criteria, we ended up with 38 articles. In conclusion, any instruments have been made for the pain assessment in patients with dementia. The two most common tools used to assess pain in this vulnerable population are the Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) and Pain Assessment Checklist for Seniors with Limited Ability to Communicate (PACSLAC) scales. The utilization of new technology may offer promising solutions for the pain assessment in patients with dementia.
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