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UM School of Nursing researcher awarded $2.13M to address pain management for dementia patients
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Barbara Resnick, Ph.D., RN, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, professor, Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology, and associate dean for research at the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON), was awarded a five-year, $2.13 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging to address the treatment of pain in nursing home residents with dementia.
The focus of this work is how to implement use in nursing homes of the recently revised Pain Management Clinical Practice Guideline from AMDA — The Society of Post Acute and Long-Term Care.
Findings from the study, “Testing the Pain Management Clinical Practice Guideline (Pain Management CPG)-Evidence Integration Triangle (EIT),” will explore how best to improve the way in which pain is assessed, diagnosed, and managed among older adults living with dementia in nursing homes and to improve health equity of aging populations experiencing pain.
