Pain management among patients with dementia in long-term care facilities is largely pharmacologic, despite the benefits of nonpharmacologic interventions.

Nursing home care providers were able to more smoothly adopt evidence-based pain management guidelines when they had the support of pain management champions, a study in Sweden has found. A pain ...

Imagine this: You are a nurse practitioner in a nursing home. A staff member asks you to assess Mrs. B, a 90-year-old with mild dementia who is “not acting like herself.” When you check on Mrs. B, she ...