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Over the last decades, a considerable number of observational scales have been developed to assess pain in persons with dementia. The time seems ripe now to build on the knowledge and expertize implemented in these scales to form an improved, “best‐of” meta‐tool. The EU‐COST initiative “Pain in impaired cognition, especially dementia” aimed to do this by selecting items out of existing observational scales and critically re‐assessing their suitability to detect pain in dementia. This paper reports on the final phase of this collaborative task.