Former Work Life and People With Dementia.

Twelve persons with dementia were interviewed about their former work lives. Their motivation for choosing their past work was influenced by values of their contemporary culture. Those who had come to terms with their illness had positive feelings about their past contributions in their former paid work.

Pain Assessment Strategies in Home Care and Nursing Homes in Mid-Norway: A Cross-sectional Survey.

The prevalence of pain ranges from 27.8% to 86.5% in nursing homes and 42% to 50% in home care.

Pain and quality of life among residents of Norwegian nursing homes.

Pain is a major problem in the nursing home population, with a prevalence range of 27% to 84%. Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage (International Association for the Study of Pain, 2008). It has an impact on many aspects of a person's emotional, social, and physical functioning, and on quality of life (QoL) The purpose of this study was to describe pain and QoL in a nursing home population that could self-report pain and to examine the association between QoL and pain in these patients.

Validation of Doloplus-2 among nonverbal nursing home patients--an evaluation of Doloplus-2 in a clinical setting.

Background: Pain measurement in nonverbal older adults is best based on behavioural observation, e.g. using an observational measurement tool such as Doloplus-2.

Pain in elderly hospitalized cancer patients with bone metastases in Norway.

Aim: To examine differences in reported pain, pain management and satisfaction with pain management between middle-aged and elderly patients. The study also examined differences in global quality of life (QoL) and pain interference with patient function between middle-aged and elderly patients with bone metastases.

Method: A one-day prevalence study was performed, targeting hospitalized cancer patients 18 years and over in Norwegian hospitals; 79 patients with bone metastases were included.

Patient demographics and centre description in European palliative care units.

Patients in palliative care are elderly, frail and in decline with multisystem disease. These and other factors make palliative care research particularly challenging, and has been one of several reasons why relatively little systematic research has been performed. The European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) is seeking to emphasise the importance of research.