Who is losing the language? Persistent pain in home-dwelling elders

Age and Ageing

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 432-434

  Melding, Pamela S ^a,b,c  

^a Royal Australian/New Zealand College   (New Zealand)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALGESIA; AWARENESS; CAREGIVER; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; EDITORIAL; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; NOCICEPTION; NURSING HOME; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SKILL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICATION; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 4544314155     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afh186     Document Type: Editorial

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