Patients often are asked to rate their pain on a scale of 1 to 10. This isn't an option for patients with moderate to severe dementia. They're not able to verbally express or rate their pain or ...

Although dementia patients experience severe or chronic pain, ... they may not be able to fully understand the pain scales presented by doctors, so the self-report may be inaccurate.

Until now the usual way to detect pain in patients with reduced communication was using the PAINAD scale, a methodology of pain observation in patients with advanced dementia, recently validated ...

When a patient cannot say how much pain they are in, such as when they are sedated, have dementia, or are nonverbal, clinicians turn to facial expressions to guide treatment.

Media file 3: Photomicrograph from a patient with AIDS dementia complex (ADC) shows perivascular and parenchymal infiltrates of lymphocytes and macrophages. These often form microglial nodules.

When patients cannot verbalize their pain, the pain assessment instrument Abbey Pain Scale is sometimes used instead—but it does not work for patients with cancer, according to a thesis.

Pain management in individuals with dementia, particularly in advanced stages, is a complex challenge due to communication barriers. Recognizing and addressing pain in these patients is often ...