Pain in people with cognitive impairment

Authors

  • M. Constantinou

Abstract

This paper will describe the latest findings regarding pain assessment and pain identification in cognitively impaired individuals, especially those with dementia. Particular emphasis will be given to the specialist tools used to identify pain and current attempts to develop an improved assessment tool. The validity of facial and other signs of pain in cognitively impaired people who are not verbal will be discussed. The presentation will culminate with the discussion of new findings from a recent study, which will support the correlation of observational data and subjective reports of pain in a group of adults with chronic pain, in an attempt to support the development of the new pain assessment tool.

Published

2015-12-31

Issue

Section

Symposia