Pain affects people with dementia as much as it does anyone else

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Pain affects people with dementia as much as it does anyone else

Ngaire Kerse

Ngaire Kerse

Stone in running shoe
Students learn by putting a stone in their shoe and walking around for a few minutes

ELDER HEALTH

People with dementia are often less able to identify, define and report the pain they feel, so it takes extra attention to make sure this aspect of care is not missed

Key points The sources of pain are the same as with all older people, except the person with dementia has trouble identifying, defining and repo