Frankfurt - An inadequate supply of pain medication for residents of nursing homes has criticized the German Society for Pain Management Of the 600,000 people living in nursing homes, 70 percent suffered from pain at times.. "These people get too little pain medication," criticized Thomas Lange, grief therapist from Rudolstadt on the 18th Schmerztag German in Frankfurt.
Old people often asked no pain, because they assumed that pain belongs to the ages. In addition, many nurses and doctors asking residents not to pain. Often stood other issues such as sleep, meals, or the measurement of blood pressure in the foreground. "Doctors prescribe seniors when they consult in practice, more than pain killers when their elderly patients in nursing home care and visit them there," said Lange.
Another problem is that about half of the patients was accordingly in the homes. These patients could not articulate their pain and therefore would get too little analgesia. "However, there are clear signals on which you can recognize these people pain," says Lange. One could, for example, they recognize the facial expression and body language. The nursing staff is often not enough, however, trained to recognize the pain signals. "The pain problems must necessarily integrated into the training of nurses," asked Long.
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