Evidence-Based Pain Management

GOLTC Pain in Care homes Interest Group webinar

Date: Tuesday 11 November 2025

Pain is a common care problem among nursing homes residents. Even though pharmacological interventions often have limited therapeutic effect and compromises activities of daily living, and may even cause adverse, potentially fatal, side effects for residents, non-pharmacological interventions for pain management in nursing homes are seldom used. One explanation might be, that the non-pharmacological interventions may not be developed with the target groups and therefore not practical, feasible, or e.g., even not accepted by the residents. Therefore, in this webinar the joint development of a practical and feasible toolkit for implementing non-pharmacological pain management interventions in nursing homes was presented.

The webinar covered:

• Introduction to the Global Observatory of Long-Term care and welcome (Adelina Comas-Herrera, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE, UK).
• Introduction to the GOLTC Interest Group (Manuela Hoedl, Medical University of Graz and Sandra Zwakhalen, Maastricht University)
• A practical toolkit with non-pharmacological interventions for pain management in nursing homes (Daniela Schoberer and Eva Pichler, Medical University of Graz)

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• Q & A: Ideas/ further plans for improving pain management?
• Discussion about the Interest Group next steps led by the steering group members

You can find the Toolkit here: https://goltc.org/publications/a-practical-toolkit-with-non-pharmacological-interventions-for-pain-management-in-nursing-homes/