The ageing revolution is changing the composition of our society with more people
becoming very old with higher risks for developing both pain and dementia. Pain is normally …

Background High symptom burden is common in long-term care residents with dementia
and results in distress and behavioral challenges if undetected. Physicians may have limited …

Abstract Background Of the Swedish people with advanced dementia, the majority die in
nursing homes. Unresolved pain can occur in people with a terminal illness such as …

Background Over the last decades, a considerable number of observational scales have
been developed to assess pain in persons with dementia. The time seems ripe now to build …

Neuropathic pain frequently affects older people, who generally also have several
comorbidities. Elderly patients are often poly-medicated, which increases the risk of drug …

BACKGROUND People with advanced dementia who live and die in nursing homes
experience variable quality of life, care and dying. There is a need to identify appropriate …

Background Although stroke is a significant public health challenge and the need for
palliative care has been emphasized for these patients, there is limited data on end-of-life …

Objectives Hospitalized persons living with dementia often experience unrelieved pain.
Unmanaged pain during hospitalization has a significant negative effect on quality of life for …

Background People with dementia are most at risk of experiencing serious health related
suffering, if they do not have a palliative care approach introduced early enough in the …

Objectives determine and compare the prevalence of orofacial pain in older nursing home
residents with and without dementia and explore the association between orofacial pain and …