Continence care for obese nursing home residents.
Obesity is a significant and increasing health problem for older individuals, caregivers, and health care financing and delivery systems. While the relationship between obesity and urinary incontinence has been studied fairly extensively in community-dwelling individuals, little is known about obesity and continence status, or nursing care needs of nursing home residents with these conditions. The results of the study reported here, gathered from observations and interviews with nursing home residents and their caregivers, provide a first step in examining this increasingly important issue.
Bradway
Christine
C
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Urology Health Specialists, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Miller
Elizabeth
E
Heivly
Amy
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Fleshner
Irene
I
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D015992:Body Mass Index; D015897:Comorbidity; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005260:Female; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008008:Licensure, Nursing; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D055805:Moving and Lifting Patients; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D017592:Skin Care / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000150:complications / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology