Nursing home care providers were able to more smoothly adopt evidence-based pain management guidelines when they had the support of pain management champions, a study in Sweden has found. A pain ...

You are a nurse practitioner in a nursing home. A staff member asks you to assess Mrs. B, a 90-year-old with mild dementia who is “not ...

Despite awareness that pain is common in nursing home residents, there has been minimal attention focused on how this pain changes over time. A new study presents compelling evidence of the existence ...

New York (MedscapeWire) Apr 25 — Widespread and undertreated pain has been found to persist in elderly nursing home patients, according to a study by researchers from Brown University in Providence, ...

A team of investigators evaluated numerous factors associated with the management of pain among residents of nursing homes with dementia. Although more than half of patients with dementia residing in ...

Pain management is complex, and demands interacting on several dimensions. To practice high standard nursing pain care, nurses are professionals with vision, leadership, knowledge and skills and a ...

Chronic pain is often seen as only a physical condition, but it can extend well beyond the body. Those living with long-term pain frequently report difficulties with memory, attention and other ...

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Men feel more pain following major surgery, while women feel more pain after minor procedures, according to Austrian researchers. Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ clinical articles, ...