title: Selecting appropriate absorbent products to treat urinary incontinence.
abstract: Urinary incontinence can have a significant negative effect on a person's life, especially if left unmanaged and untreated. Continence assessment, often carried out by community nurses, is an important element in the management of a person's urinary incontinence, and so is the selection of appropriate absorbent incontinence pads. This article reviews: the causes and effects of urinary incontinence; how to derive the most appropriate information from a continence assessment; strategies for selecting incontinence pads for a person, on the basis of the results of the continence assessment; and some of the problems and risks associated with the use of incontinence pads.
authors.affiliation: Community Nurse, Whittington Health NHS.
authors.forename: Drew
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Payne
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing; D006801:Humans; D016496:Incontinence Pads; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control*
keywords: assessment; incontinence pads; skin care; urinary incontinence; wellbeing