A tool that was once used to examine the intensity and frequency of pain in dementia patients following their death has been revamped to help skilled nursing facilities deliver palliative care to ...

Dementia isn’t a specific disease. Instead, it describes a collection of symptoms that affect a person’s thinking and social abilities enough to interfere with daily life. There are more than 55 ...

A team of investigators evaluated numerous factors associated with the management of pain among residents of nursing homes with dementia. Although more than half of patients with dementia residing in ...

University of Alberta computing scientists are developing an app to aid health-care staff to assess and manage pain in patients suffering from dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases. The ...

A team of researchers at the University of Cordoba Department of Nursing recently identified a way to test saliva for signs that a person is feeling pain, something that may be helpful in managing ...

MORRISVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Relias, the trusted education and workforce enablement partner to more than 11,000 healthcare and human services organizations and 4.5 million caregivers, announced ...

Speakers at the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging’s Alzheimer’s forum Wednesday discussed the importance of detecting pain in dementia patients, among other topics. Panelist Dr. Patricia A. Grady ...

When you’re in pain, you can usually tell someone about it. But for people with communication difficulties, that isn’t always an option, meaning pain often goes undetected, misinterpreted or wrongly ...

A Gerontological Society of America (GSA) report summarizes survey findings on the readiness of the primary care workforce to ...

A UAB study validates a rigorous expert panel method as a reliable gold standard for measuring delirium severity in patients with and without dementia, supporting future clinical tools and advancing ...