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What kind of care is provided to patients with incontinence in residential facilities and home care ? I. Views and attitudes of health professionals.

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2009

Abstract

Urinary and fecal incontinence are considered as symptoms worsening significantly patient's quality of life and accounting for high costs particularly for nursing care for incontinent in long-term care facilities. Repeated complaints of substandard quality of care and nursing practices provided to incontinent persons in these settings have been reported.

In institutions, prevalence of incontinence reaches 50- 70% of residents and, about a half of home care clients suffer from incontinence, too. In the article we present results of the project 'Incontinence in the context of nursing care'.