The Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia Scale (PAINAD) was developed to assess pain and reduce the likelihood that it is unrecognized and untreated.

Dementia isn't a specific disease. Instead, it describes a collection of symptoms that affect a person's thinking and social abilities enough to interfere with daily life. There are more than ...

Moreover, if they can report their pain and discomfort, 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 ...

The key pain biomarkers investigated are sTNFR2 (Soluble Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 2) and sIgA (immunoglobulin A), both associated with inflammation, a process intricately linked to dementia ...

AIDS dementia complex is caused by the HIV virus itself, not by the opportunistic infections that commonly occur in advanced HIV. We do not know exactly how the virus damages brain cells. HIV may ...

We call them the 5 Ps: pills, pneumonia, pain, urinary tract infection (UTI), and constipation. But often, the decline is simply due to advancing dementia. Dementia doesn’t plateau.

A new study has shown that pain in people with dementia when admitted to hospital is underreported, which leads to symptoms worsening.. Pain is commonly under-detected and under-treated in people with ...