Behavioural treatment of urinary incontinence in geriatric patients.
Urinary incontinence and a program to treat it were studied in a geriatric hospital. Of 161 men, 58 (36%) were incontinent. The most common probable causes were cerebrovascular accident and organic brain syndrome. Evaluation by cystometry (after treatment of infections) in 30 patients showed 24 (80%) to have detrusor hyperreflexia. Twenty patients with hyperreflexia completed a timed-voiding routine, which benefited 17 of them (85%).
D000368:Aged; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000150:complications; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*