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ICP Project: Pain Analysis

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I am so happy you picked pain as your ICP project. Pain, in my eyes, has always been all encompassing. It can affect sleep, ability to move around, eating, healing, breathing, mood and relationships (Shega, Tiedt, Grant, & Dale, 2014). Personally when I am in severe pain I really do not want people around and it affects every aspect of my life. To think that persistent pain affects 80% of elderly residents in nursing homes and 50% of community dwellers, and we still do not treat this properly (Veal& Peterson, 2015). I understand the fears associated with adding more medication to an already heavily populated age group, but perhaps addressing the pain may assist with removal of other medications. I specialized in dementia for several

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