Residents’ perspectives on urinary incontinence: a review of literature

Abstract

Residents' perspectives on incontinence and preferences for continence care relate to low expectations for improvement. Such misconceptions should be addressed and residents and their family members should be given a range of options from which to choose. As urinary incontinence impacts on residents' quality of life, it is also important that continence care is delivered in a participative and sensitive way.

“Will I come home incontinent?” A retrospective file review: Incidence of development of incontinence and correlation with length of stay in acute settings for people with dementia or cognitive impairment aged 65 years and over

“…In order to independently go to the toilet, any individual performs various tasks in sequence (Ostaszkiewicz et al, 2012a). Ostaszkiewicz et al (2012a) note that as in the case of dementia, with loss of executive planning skills, incontinence can occur when these tasks are performed out of order or a loss of ability occurs. In order Please cite this article in press as: Furlanetto, K., & Emond, K. ''Will I come home incontinent?''…”

“…An elderly person with dementia's capacity to ambulate is also often affected, and the ''single most predictive factor for incontinence'' is impaired mobility (Ostaszkiewicz et al, 2012a, p. 762). With this knowledge, it can be inferred that by investing in strategies that maintain an individual's mobility, continence may also be optimised (Ostaszkiewicz et al, 2012a).…”

“….an integral aspect of caring for older people'' (Tadd et al, 2011, p. 40). Current literature related to incontinence impacts, is focused on quality of life in residential care and community care (DuBeau, Simon, & Morris, 2006;Ostaszkiewicz, O'Connell, & Dunning, 2012a). Few sources tell us about incidence of new incontinence.…”

“…Studies have shown that little signage, inadequate privacy, poor orientation, lack of toilets and use of continence aids, contribute to the development of incontinence in such settings (Calnan et al, 2013;Department of Health, 2012;Ostaszkiewicz et al, 2012a).…”

Urine incontinence in women aged sixty to sixty‐five: negotiating meaning and responsibility

“…Congruent with these findings, Skoner and Haylor also found that women perceive and manage UI within a framework of normality, whereas health practitioners assess and treat UI within a disease framework. Most studies on UI in women are focused on the very old and frail and/or institutionalised women or are population‐based studies investigating women from in their twenties to groups aged 60+ or 65+ . In this study, the participants were all women in their early sixties.…”