It is important to raise awareness within the treatment team of urinary incontinence in stroke survivors. Team members should be able to communicate about urinary incontinence in an open and empathic way. Obviously, there is great potential for supporting stroke survivors in dealing with incontinence.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 50 million people worldwide have dementia, and there are nearly 10 million new cases every year (World Health Organization, 2017a). ICD-10 defines dementia as "a syndrome due to disease of the brain, usually of a chronic or progressive nature, in which there is a disturbance of multiple higher cortical function, including memory, thinking, orientation, comprehension, calculation, learning capacity, language and judgement" (World Health Organization, 2016). Dementia is associated with complex needs and, especially in the later stages, high levels of dependency and morbidity (National Institute for Health & Care Excellence NICE], 2016). In the advanced state of the disease, the major challenges for the affected person, as well as for their family and caregivers, are the behavioural and psychological symptoms.There are four predominant symptom groups: affective symptoms, psychosis, hyperactivity and euphoria (van der Linde et al., 2014).Approximately two-thirds of people with dementia live at home and are supported by their spouse and families (Saxl, 2014). These family caregivers show high levels of physical, time-dependence and developmental burdens (Wang et al., 2014). People with dementia have increased difficulties in doing housekeeping tasks independently. However, they need activities in daily life for structuring their day and cognitive training. For several reasons, people with advanced dementia are limited in doing their leisure activities. One aspect is security: the affected persons are unable to carry out an