University of Wisconsin–Madison

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What A Pain! A Study of the Treatment of Pain in Older Adults with Dementia

Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a John A. Hartford Foundation Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Predoctoral Scholar, researches a topic that hits close to home: pain. That is, Gilmore-Bykovskyi studies the decisions and strategies used by health care providers to manage the physical pain experienced by nursing home residents …