Advil is many people's go-to for occasional aches and pains. However, one formulation of Advil that's geared toward sleep ...

While patients with dementia are at higher risk for delirium, it is important to distinguish the two disorders as delirium represents an acute change with a differential diagnosis prompting ...

In many ways, we are the first cohort in human history grappling with the fallout of dementia at this scale. The rules — medical, ethical, and personal — are being written in real time.

Objectives The aim of this study was to adapt and validate the Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) scale in Spanish. Design Cross-sectional observational study. Setting Two health districts ...

Optimising medication to enhance comfort and quality of life for people with dementia nearing the end of their life. This is a Self-assessment article and comes with a self-assessment test NT ...

How dementia progresses Dementia progresses in stages, with different grading systems used to assess its severity, shares Dr. Koncilja. One common method categorizes dementia into three levels: mild, ...

“We couldn’t do it for 12 hours. We were asking our patients with dementia to do it for the rest of their lives.” Yet, “there wasn’t any evidentiary basis” for the policy, Dr. Widera said.

In patients undergoing aortic-coronary bypass and cardiopulmonary bypass, 50%-70% develop POCD 1 week after surgery. In addition, 10%-30% experience long-term effects on cognitive function at 6 ...

Regarding prior knowledge about pain assessment scales, 84% knew the Numerical Verbal Scale, 15% knew the Behavioral Pain Scale, and 6% knew the Advanced Dementia Pain Scale; 62% said they had ...

Every year, several thousand cancer patients in Sweden risk receiving too little pain relief in the end of life, as the health care system fails to detect that the patients are suffering from pain ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, self-reported pain in caregivers of patients with dementia was associated with more pandemic‑related stress stemming from the caregiver’s relationship with the ...