Advancing Pain Assessment in Long-Term Care: Insights from PainChek’s Landmark US Clinical Study
This article shares the latest research in pain assessment in long-term care, with insights from a landmark clinical study in the US.
The PainChek Blueprint: Medication Optimisation That Strengthens Care Home Resilience
This second instalment in the PainChek Blueprint series explores how care providers can make medication optimisation practical, consistent and sustainable by embedding pain assessment into care.
The PainChek Blueprint: Reducing Falls and Strengthening Care Home Resilience
This is the first article in a series that explores how care providers are building PainChek into general practice to deliver significant outcomes.
When Residents Thrive, Care Businesses Thrive
How Earlier Pain Detection is Transforming Outcomes and Financial Resilience. Across the UK care sector, one principle remains consistently true: when residents are healthier, safer, and experiencing…
Reducing Resident Discharges: How meeting resident needs goes beyond person centred care.
Identifying pain early plays a surprisingly important role in preventing infections. This is particularly the case in people who are unable to reliably verbalise their pain, such as those living with…
20 million pain assessments. A voice for every person
PainChek® has now passed 20 million pain assessments globally, a reflection of how pain is being recognised, understood and acted on every day, across care settings worldwide.
Congratulations to Jo Hadfield Cubbin: Winner of the UK Dementia Care Awards: Technology & AI in Dementia Category
We’re proud to share that Jo Hadfield Cubbin, Head of Clinical Governance at Dovehaven Care Homes, has won the UK Dementia Care Awards – Technology & AI in Dementia Award—an honour she was nominated…
Giving Every Resident a Voice: How The Jewish Home Family Is Using PainChek® to Improve Pain Assessment
How one US long-term care provider is helping staff identify pain earlier in residents who cannot reliably self-report.
Combining PRN protocol with pain assessments: reducing hospital admissions
PRN medicines, also called “when required” medicines, and variable-dose medicines are used when needed to treat conditions such as nausea and vomiting, pain, indigestion and more. These medicines…
Stop the cascade: how better pain assessment reduces polypharmacy
Polypharmacy, commonly defined as the use of five or more medications, is one of the most significant challenges facing care and healthcare providers. Research shows that up to 91% of care home…
Managing pain in dementia: lower dependency and fewer hospital transfers
Many individuals living with dementia often experience pain but find themselves unable to self-report this pain, causing it to go undetected. Pain can drive functional decline in activities of daily…
The importance of early pain identification in preventing infections
Identifying pain early plays a surprisingly important role in preventing infections. This is particularly the case in people who are unable to reliably verbalise their pain, such as those living with…