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Rev Esp Geriatr Gerontol · Jan 2014
Review[Scales to evaluate pain in elderly patients suffering from dementia. Help-tools for the physiotherapist, doctor, nurse and occupational therapist].
- Juan Rodríguez-Mansilla, María Jiménez-Palomares, and María Victoria González-López-Arza.
- Departamento Terapéutica Médico-Quirúrgica, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, España. Electronic address: jrodman@unex.es.
- Rev Esp Geriatr Gerontol. 2014 Jan 1; 49 (1): 35-41.
AbstractThe purpose of this study was to determine which scales are being used to evaluate pain in old people suffering from dementia. A search strategy was developed to retrieve all articles (randomized controlled trials and clinical trials without randomization) published in MEDLINE, Cochrane Library Plus, PEDro and Dialnet and BMC Geriatrics from January 2000 to January 2012. Exclusion criteria were articles that did not use scales for evaluating pain in elderly patients suffering from dementia, and other type of articles (case studies, reviews...). Finally, 13 studies were included in this review. From the results obtained it appears that more studies are needed to confirm the pain scales used for the elderly suffering from dementia. Observational scales may be useful to evaluate pain in these patients.Copyright © 2012 SEGG. Published by Elsevier Espana. All rights reserved.
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