Pain Cues in People With Dementia: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals with dementia, especially those in later stages, have difficulties with verbally reporting their experience of pain. This results in both underassessment and undertreatment of pain, signaling the need for better pain recognition in persons with dementia. A promising form of pain assessment is digital monitoring, which can concurrently and more objectively detect and use numerous relevant pain cues.

Objective

This review aimed to identify observable cues of pain, which could be used for digital pain monitoring. A total of 2 research questions (RQs) were formed as we set out to examine which digital cues offered a valid insight into pain in people with dementia (RQ1) and identify how these cues were originally measured (RQ2).

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Smrke U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12661616 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature