Urinary incontinence often presents a significant burden for care home residents, carers and healthcare professionals. However, these burdens can be alleviated with good continence care, based on holistic assessment and personalised prescribing of containment products. Practical and effective ways to achieve this are demonstrated in a service-improvement project, published by the British Journal of Community Nursing. This paper is now an interactive document so that you can easily navigate to the area you'd like to learn more about. The document has three main areas: Burden of urinary incontinence, Improving continence care, Holistic prescribing in practice.
Burden of urinary continence
Urinary incontinence, the involuntary leakage of urine in an inappropriate location, represents a significant burden on patients and healthcare services. In this section you can explore:
- Prevalence
- Physical impact
- Holistic impact
- Financial impact
- Good care
- Continence containment products
- Generic prescribing
- Personalised prescribing
- Comprehensive holistic assessment
- Who? How many care home residents
- Why? From both the residents' and care home staff perspectives
- How? The holistic assessment
- What? The product provided
- The results
