What is it about?
This article explores the causes and effects of pain, providing details of various forms of pain-assessments.
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Why is it important?
Pain is a common symptom, but due to communication problems, many residents will be unable to articulate pain levels and staff need to rely on non-verbal clues.
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Pain should not be accepted as an inevitable consequence of ageing.
Mrs Julie I Swann
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This page is a summary of: Pain: causes, effects and assessment, Nursing and Residential Care, May 2010, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/nrec.2010.12.5.47772.
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