Chapter 8: Incontinence
Overview :
An essential guide to incontinence, which addresses the following:
- Prevalence
- Attitudes
- Incontinence in residential care
- Types and causes
- Assessment and management
Description:
Incontinence is frequently encountered by nurses and personal carers, particularly in aged care. This chapter tackles the importance of understanding what incontinence is, who it affects, why it happens and what can be done about it.
Topics:
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Prevalence
- Attitudes to incontinence
- Incontinence in residential care
- Types and causes of incontinence
- Assessment and management
- Level 1: Basic needs for continence
- Level 2: Common reversible causes of incontinence
- Level 3: Assessment and management of persistent incontinence
- Conclusion
Speaker / Author:
Keren Day
Keren is a continence nurse consultant of more than 15 years experience. She currently is working at Ballarat Health Services (Victoria, Australia) in a regional, community‐based, multidisciplinary continence service. Her experience includes management of a community‐nursing continence service, coordination of the Victorian Continence Resource Centre, and establishment of a new multidisciplinary continence service. Keren has been involved in government working committees to develop continence services at both state and federal levels. More recently she has undertaken clinical research in the objective assessment of constipation in the elderly in residential care and in development of best‐practice in bowel management.
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