Pain reports and pain medication treatment in nursing home residents with and without dementia.

Monroe TB, Misra SK, Habermann RC, Dietrich MS, Cowan RL, Simmons SF. Pain reports and pain medication treatment in nursing home residents with and without dementia. Geriatrics & gerontology international. 2014 Jul;14(14). 541-8. PMID: 24020433 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC4850825 NIHMSID: NIHMS779938.

Abstract

The purpose of this pilot study was to determine if a diagnosis of dementia influenced pain self-reports and pain medication use in a group of verbally communicative nursing home (NH) residents.