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AGS Clinical Practice Guideline: Pharmacological Management of Persistent Pain in Older Persons (2009) — Persistent pain—painful sensation that continues for a prolonged period of time and may or may not be associated with a well defined disease process—is prevalent in older adults. The American Geriatrics Society is pleased to provide tools to assist clinicians in providing optimal care to older adults who suffer from pain, as well as resources for patients and caregivers on pain management and treatment.
Assessing Pain in Older Adults with Dementia 2012 — : Pain in older adults is very often undertreated, and it may be especially so in older adults with severe dementia. Changes in a patient’s ability to communicate verbally present special challenges in treating pain, since self-report is considered the gold standard of pain assessment.
Assessment of Pain in Children 2006 — Objectives ▪ To understand and be able to utilize current validated scales for pain measurement in children ▪ Have the ability to discern specific pain measures that can be used for pre-verbal children and those with cognitive impairment
Faces Pain Scale – Revised (FPS-R) — designed for children but can be used with people with communication disorders
Non-communicating Children’s Pain Checklist – Postoperative Version — includes instructions for administration and scoring
Pain: How to Recognize when it Hurts 2010 — ppt presentation slides
Pain Assessment and Management 2010 — basic self-learning module
Pain Assessment Checklist for Seniors with Limited Ability to Communicate (PACSLAC) 2007 — provides guidelines Note: Copyright © Shannon Fuchs-Lacelle and Thomas Hadjistavropoulos
Pain Assessment in Nonverbal Children with Severe Cognitive Impairments: The Individualized Numeric Rating Scale (INRS) 2003 — d a literature review and a benchmarking analysis of best practice. The pilot of an adapted, existing pain assessment tool is described in this article.
Pain experience and expression in patients with dementia 2010 — The aim of the chapter is to describe the issues of pain presence in the population of the elderly with dementia from the theoretical and clinical point of view.
Pain in Children with Cognitive Impairments who are Nonverbal 2014 — many children who have cognitive impairments and are nonverbal may not be capable of providing accurate self-reports about their pain. For this reason, caregivers are often asked to estimate the severity of pain a child is experiencing through observing their behaviour/pain expression.
Pain in People with Developmental Disabilities: A Scoping Review 2012 — The expression of pain or pain behaviour is unique for each person with or without developmental disability (DD*). Lack of pain assessment and management creates health disparities for people with DD.
Pain in the Elderly Validity of Facial Expression Components of Observational Measures 2011 — Assessing pain in elderly persons, who have diminished capacity to communicate verbally, requires use of observational scales that focus upon nonverbal behavior.
Pain management in patients with dementia 2013 — In addition to the discomfort and distress caused by pain, it is frequently the underlying cause of behavioral symptoms, which can lead to inappropriate treatment with antipsychotic medications.
Pain Management - the first Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Cafe Scientifique on 01 December 2008 presented by Dr. Thomas Hadjistavropoulos and Dr. Kenneth Craig — Overview of seminar: How can you tell someone is in pain if they have limited ability to communicate? The language of pain is different for babies, people with intellectual disabilities, and people with dementia. It is a language without words, one that relies on gesture, expression, sound, and behavior. For families and health care providers, understanding the language of pain is crucial to easing suffering.
Pain Research Forum — Launched in June, 2011, the Pain Research Forum (PRF) is an interactive web community dedicated to finding treatments for untreatable pain conditions.
Pain Rotation Syllabus 2012: includes PAIN MANAGEMENT 101: A PRIMER FOR THE BEGINNER — 500 pages on pain management by the University of California San Diego Department of Anesthesiology Center for Pain Medicine
Practice Guidelines for Assessing Pain in Older Persons with Dementia Residing in Long-Term Care Facilities 2010 — For an effective physiotherapy programme to be implemented, valid pain assessment is necessary. This paper is intended to provide practice guidelines for pain assessment among older persons with dementia.
PRINCIPLES OF PAIN MANAGEMENT — General Principles of Pain Management. A comprehensive pain management strategy
Psychological Tests Commonly Used in the Assessment of Chronic Pain Patients — list with descriptions
Resources: Pain assessment and management — The following resource is designed to assist Long-Term Care (LTC) homes with the implementation of the Assessment and Management of Pain Best Practice Guideline. Documents found in this resource are evidence-based, but it is not a program plan.
The importance of pain management in older people with dementia 2014 — Pain is common in people with dementia, representing a critical aspect of treatment and care. However, there remain considerable gaps in evidence to support pain assessment and treatment.
The Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) — Checklist and guidelines
WHO guidelines on the pharmacological treatment of persisting pain in children with medical illnesses 2012 — Pain in children is a public health concern of major significance in most parts of the world. Although the means and knowledge to relieve pain exists, children’s pain is often not recognized, is ignored or even denied. These guidelines address the pharmacological management of persisting pain in children with medical illnesses.