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Capacity Australia makes the following recommendations to the Royal Commission:

page 19

3. Pain identification and management in nursing home residents with dementia should not, and in fact cannot due to the disease, be reactive, it should be proactive. Undiagnosed and/or untreated pain are a major cause of changed behaviour and distress in people with dementia. Regular screening for signs of pain, particularly when a person appears agitated or distressed needs to be incorporated into daily care of people with dementia and new technologies such as PainChek (or similar) should be utilised across the board and regularly. To ignore and neglect pain is elder abuse.



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