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Chronic pain in people living with dementia: challenges to recognising and managing pain, and personalising intervention by phenotype.
Age and ageing - 8 Jan 2023
Collins Jemima T, Harwood Rowan H, Cowley Alison, Di Lorito Claudio, Ferguson Eamonn, Minicucci Marcos F, Howe Louise, Masud Tahir, Ogliari Giulia, O'Brien Rebecca, Azevedo Paula S, Walsh David A, Gladman John R F
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Pain is common in people with dementia, and pain can exacerbate the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. Effective pain management is challenging, not least in people with dementia. Impairments of cognition, communication and abstract thought can make communicating pain unreliable or impossible. It is unclear which biopsychosocial interventions for pain management are effective in people with...
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