Pain Management in Aged Care: The Basics

Being a personal care worker entails assisting older Australians who are in pain. Learners will focus on observing, defining and identifying appropriate treatments that can help older Australians with their pain. Learners will also focus on how to assess various pains in older Australians and how to use certain techniques and tools to help with pain management.

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By the end of this question set, learners will be able to:

• Define common types of pain to enable correct pain management strategies.
• Identify ways to observce pain to enable collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team to alleviate the pain.
• Identify causes of pain to enable further investigation to determine appropriate treatment.
• List ways to support older Australians with pain management to improve their comfort.

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1. Acute vs chronic
2. Radicular pain
3. What is MSD?
4. What is ischemic pain?
5. Pain due to cancer
6. Causes of neuropathic pain
7. Causes of musculoskeletal pain
8. Ischemic limb pain
9. Cancer and pain
10. Abbey Pain Scale (APS)
11. Pain management support
12. Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM)