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Pain history should be adapted to their cognitive abilities of people with dementia who can still communicate. With increasing limitations of communication skills, history of a third party and standardized observation instruments increase in importance. ⋯ Opioids and coanalgetics have hardly been studied in this group although frequently used. Anticholinergic side effects are especially important in people with dementia.