Learn the importance of understanding an individual’s pain.
Dementia Forward is a trusted charity offering support, advice, and information to people living with dementia and their families. With a person-centred approach, they provide practical help, emotional guidance, and inclusive community activities across North Yorkshire. Whether navigating a new diagnosis or seeking ongoing support, Dementia Forward offers hope, understanding, and a community that truly cares.
What is pain? How can pain be managed within dementia? Why do people with dementia experience unmanaged pain? What are the different ways people with dementia may express pain? What practical methods of assessing people with dementia who are in pain?
Our Pain Management in Dementia course will help you to answer the questions above and more.
Research and studies have told us that 85% of people living with dementia in care homes are at risk of experiencing unrecognised and unmanaged pain. This often means that pain is missed, and therefore unmanaged. In this course we will explore the reasons as to this may be happening, as well as some of the difficulties and barriers around pain assessing. This course also explores different ways a person living with dementia may communicate they are pain, for example through behaviour or non-verbal communication.
Through our Pain Management in Dementia course, you will learn how to understand, care for, support, and look after an individual experiencing pain within dementia. You will learn the importance of understanding pain. You will learn how people with dementia deal with the pain.
What you'll learn.
- Why people with dementia may experience unmanaged pain
- Different ways people with dementia may express pain
- Practical methods of assessing people with dementia who are in pain
- Identifying barriers of pain management
Who is Pain Management in Dementia for?
This course if for anyone supporting people living with dementia. This can include health and social care staff, GP’s, hospital staff, physiotherapists, but also family members and carers.
What are the learning outcomes?
By the end of this course, you will be able to…
- Explore what pain is.
- State why pain is often missed in someone living with dementia.
- Recognise people display pain symptoms in different ways.
- Explain that behaviour may be a communication of discomfort or pain.
- How to use different methods and assessment tools for identifying pain.
- Understanding how to overcome barriers in pain management.
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