Controlling Pain: Assessing pain in patients with dementia
Anne Federico RN-C, CPAN, CCRN, MA, FNP-BC

$3.95 		Nursing2013
December 2009 
Volume 39  Number 12
Pages 64 - 64
 
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ABSTRACT

ALTHOUGH THEY'RE ALSO LIKELY to have other conditions that cause pain, older patients with dementia are less likely to receive adequate analgesia than older patients without dementia. 1-3

Unrelieved pain triggers the stress response and can harm the cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, metabolic, and neuroendocrine systems. Older adults tolerate these effects poorly. Patients with dementia who have unrelieved pain can develop physical and psychological problems, including gait disturbances, anorexia, sleep disturbances, agitation, combativeness, wandering, further impaired cognition, verbal aggression, depression, social isolation, and helplessness. ...

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