Pain tools are problematic in dementia.

Nguyen and colleagues’ overview of the management of patients with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia is both helpful and comprehensive, until it comes to assessing pain.1 Although many people with dementia are able to express the presence and cause of their distress, that ability is lost when they are ill or in the later stages of the condition. Many tools have been developed to assess pain, but the tools mentioned in …