Recognising when someone is in pain when they can't communicate verbaly
My sister in law has quite advanced dementia and also Downs Syndrom she is 56 years old and is now double incontinent. She pulls faces and shouts out and I am sure she is in pain. Today I visited her and she said to me as she pushed my hand away "sore " mouth" she had a dentist visit about a month ago and they said all was well. But I am sure she is in pain .I feel upset that nothing is being done. I asked the care assistant to give her some pain relief ,this she did .I telephoned about an hour later and she was much quieter. Does this tell us she was in pain ,I think so. Has anybody gone through this, or is going through this as reading about this issue ,it seems to be a big problem ?