Health Management for Older Adults II - Chronic Pain Management in the Elderly

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So how do you assess pain in people with memory impairment?
I believe the most straight-forward way to assess is just to simply ask the cognitively impaired individual, "Are you in pain, now?"
Remember, they might not be able to tell you about the pain they were experiencing two hours ago, but they can tell you about the pain now