-
Home healthcare nurse · Jan 2003
A pain assessment tool for people with advanced Alzheimer's and other progressive dementias.
- Patricia Lane, Marilyn Kuntupis, Sally MacDonald, Patricia McCarthy, Jo Ann Panke, Victoria Warden, and Ladislav Volicer.
- Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center, Unit 62 ABN, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, 200 Springs Road, Bedford, MA 01730, USA. Patricia.lane2@med.va.gov
- Home Healthc Nurse. 2003 Jan 1; 21 (1): 32-7.
AbstractAppropriate pain management can only be achieved through accurate pain assessment that is individualized, ongoing, and well documented. Assessment tools must focus on the patient as the authority on pain's existence and severity; however, self-reports are not feasible when patients lose their ability to verbally communicate. This article describes a scientifically proven pain assessment tool that can be used for patients with advanced dementia and Alzheimer's Disease.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..