Pain - undervalued problem in care of patients with dementia.

Abstract

Dementia is a frequent condition in the old age. Pain is not properly diagnosed in persons with dementia.

This causes unnecessary worsening of the quality of life of these people. It is possible to assess pain of persons with dementia by different scales.

Some of them are briefly described in this paper. PAINAD scale is enclosed in full version.

Keywords

• Pain
• Alzheimer´s disease
• pain scale
• with
• dementia.