“We conducted a retrospective audit of pain assessments from December 2017 to March 2018 and compared it with same period of previous year (December 2016 to March 2017), we have had a 72% increase in the number of pain assessments completed since we introduced PainChek®. This has also meant that we have had more pain interventions applied, including PRN medications and therapy-based solutions for pain”.

Matt Kowald

Barossa Village General Manager

“We have a strong history of engaging technology to assist our residents with dementia. It is our hope that PainChek® will more efficiently identify pain in non-verbal residents, allowing us to appropriately manage pain for their comfort.”

Graham Francis

SwanCare

“This technology allows consultants who have been called to assist with someone where behaviour impacts on their care to assess and identify if that person is in pain.”

Associate Professor Colm Cunningham

Director of the Dementia Centre for HammondCare

“Genuine issue and super promising with human application of machine learning to ease one of the many challenges of living with dementia. The system has been tested and peer reviewed and from a design and impact perspective is just plain excellent.”

Good Design

Good Design Awards Jury

“Since the introduction of PainChek, residents have suffered less pain and enjoy more of each day. It’s so beneficial and efficient both time and financial wise. It has changed the treatment plans of some residents.”

Jill Allsopp

Anthem Care Systems Manager

“I see PainChek as an evolutionary development of my past work, incorporating new technologies including smart devices and artificial intelligence that further improves the pain assessment process. There are many people who still do not have their pain assessed effectively. Our common goal is to ensure they do not suffer unnecessary pain.”

Dr Jennifer Abbey

Founder of the Abbey Pain Scale

“Having the evidence to support a pain diagnosis has often proved difficult when caring for people with dementia. Pain and behaviour management often go hand in hand and PainChek has provided us with a simple but effective tool to diagnose that a person has pain and effectively manage that pain.”

“As a result, we now have a number of documented cases of reduced use of behaviour Medication and an improvement in the quality of life for the residents. One resident who displayed severe behaviour and always denied pain has shown a significant improvement thanks to PainChek identifying that she did in fact have pain despite previous pain assessments not substantiating this.”

“We see the PainChek application as a valuable addition to our pain management system. The training and support from the staff at PainChek has been first class and the Registered nurses at Regents Garden have embraced this tool and have nothing but praise for the results that we are finding.”

Yvonne Ayre

General Manager at Regents Garden, WA