Practice guidelines for assessing pain in older persons with dementia residing in long-term care facilities

Physiotherapy Canada

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 104-113

  Hadjistavropoulos, Thomas ^a   Fitzgerald, Theresa Dever ^a   Marchildon, Gregory P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Assessment; Dementia; Long term care; Older adults; Pain

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951849793     PISSN: 03000508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/physio.62.2.104     Document Type: Article

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