Comunicación, diagnóstico y tratamiento de la incontinencia urinaria en los ancianos de una zona básica de salud

Abstract

Seeking of UI medical help was very limited and depends on variables related to perception in symptom's changes. Diagnosis and treatment done by professionals was suboptimal. Severity of UI conditions diagnosis and treatment.

Five-Year Follow-up of Urinary Incontinence in Older People in a Spanish Rural Population

“…2 As a result UI can be cured or may evolve toward slight incontinence in more than 25% of the cases. The lower remission rate for severe UI in women may be explainable because women are less likely to tell health care professionals about the problem, 17 because of its multifactorial origin, and the greater difficulty of treating female incontinence. As in many earlier studies of UI, 4,7,[18][19][20][21] the variable most strongly associated with the appearance of UI in the older people we studied was impaired mobility.…”