Exploring the effectiveness of health and social care support services
Now to THE BIG QUESTION … Do you think that people who need support to maintain continence are being let down by the services that are there to support them? …
Course: Understanding Continence Promotion: Effective Management of Bladder and Bowel Dysfunction in Adults
Promoting continence in people with dementia
Watch this video made by the Care Inspectorate for Scotland to raise awareness of the continence needs of people with dementia, and to highlight that promoting continence with this group …
Medication
Medication is used to treat bladder and bowel dysfunction. Common bladder conditions treated with drugs include: Overactive bladder (OAB) and urgency incontinence Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) ‘enlarged prostate’ Vaginal atrophy …
Abdominal massage
Abdominal massage can help people with chronic constipation to evacuate their bowel. It is a non-invasive technique, which works by stimulating peristalsis and decreasing transit time through the colon, thus …
Can electrical stimulation treat incontinence?
When it comes to treating incontinence, clinical guidelines recommend conservative interventions, targeted to the type of incontinence, as the first-line treatment approach. Conservative treatment is defined as ‘interventions that do …
Challenges of bladder and bowel problems
In people with dementia there are many challenges with bladder and bowel problems. Watch clinician Kate Boyce to find out more.
What is bladder training?
Bladder training may be used to treat urge and mixed urinary incontinence, frequency and urgency symptoms. It restores normal bladder function by increasing the time interval between voids and reducing …
Toileting Assistance Programmes (TAPs)
Toileting assistance programmes (TAPs) are provided by carers, to help the person to avoid or reduce episodes of incontinence. In this video, clinician Kate Boyce describes how she supports other …
What is behavioural therapy?
Behavioural interventions include a wide array of strategies designed to promote or maintain continence. They range from different lifestyle modifications and adaptations, across changes in voiding and toilet habits, to …
How to Complete the Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises (PFME)
Pelvic floor muscle exercises (PFME) aim to strengthen the muscles surrounding the urethra and the external urethral sphincter in order to reduce or prevent urine leakage. They are performed by …
Using ISC to self-manage bladder dysfunction
Intermittent self catheterisation (ISC) can be used to self-manage bladder dysfunction. In Week 1, you met ‘Anne’ who has multiple sclerosis and lives with both urinary and faecal incontinence. In …
Self-managing bowel dysfunction
Diet can be important when self-managing bowel dysfunction. ‘Anne’ has neurogenic bowel dysfunction as well as neurogenic bladder dysfunction. Watch her explaining what she does to manage her bowel dysfunction …
Fluid management
Continence is affected by the type of fluids consumed as well as the amount. Fluid type Caffeine (found in coffee, tea, drinking chocolate and fizzy drinks, such as cola and …
What does self-management of continence involve?
Self management of bladder and bowel continence is dependent on the person’s self-efficacy for continence – This means ‘their confidence in their own capabilities to be continent’. Did you know? …
Behavioural Intervention Groups
The introduction of Behavioural Intervention Groups, which bring groups of up to ten women together for bladder education, has dramatically improved clinic appointment attendance rates from 25% to 75% in …
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Understanding Continence Promotion: Effective Management of Bladder and Bowel Dysfunction in Adults