What is Urinary Incontinence (UI)?

What is Urinary Incontinence and how common is it? • UI Involuntary loss of urine; • According to the American Medical Association,

“lack of bladder control affects 10 to 20 percent of people older than 65”.

Main types of urinary incontinence:• Stress incontinence• Urge incontinence• Overflow incontinence• Functional Incontinence• Mixed Incontinence

Stress incontinence • The leakage of urine during strenuous

activities, including laughing, sneezing, exercising and even sexual activity.

• Results from age and the relaxation of pelvic muscles from multiple childbirths and medical procedures.

• More common in women. However, men can also suffer from stress incontinence due to prostrate surgery.

Urge incontinence Also known as:

• detrusor overactivity• overactive bladder (OAB)

Urge incontinence is an urgent need to urinate, often with too little warning. It is common in the elderly and can be caused by a variety of issues:

• Parkinson’s • Alzheimer’s • Diabetes.

Overflow incontinence When the bladder is filled but there is no

urge to urinate, there can be urine leakage. This is called overflow incontinence. Overflow incontinence can be caused by

• Scar tissue • Diabetes • Neurological disorders

Other types of urinary incontinence include:• Functional incontinence• Mixed incontinence

• Functional incontinence is when leakage occurs as a result of a mobility issue, such as a physical disability.

• Mixed incontinence is when there are two or more types of UI present: typically stress incontinence and urge incontinence.

Databases and Consumer Health Complete (Ebscohost available at the library)

• This database offers health information aimed at the consumer. • Over four thousand topics are available in a variety of sources, including

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Medline Plus – U.S. National Library of Medicine -https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

• Offers information on urinary incontinence in a variety of languages and a variety of mediums.

• Language offerings include Arab, Chinese and Spanish. • Formats include video tutorials, images, and slideshows, some of the

videos are offered in Spanish. • Includes a list of clinical trials.

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ArticlesHealth Source-Consumer Edition – (Ebscohost available at the library)

Some relevant articles (ask your librarian to help you locate these articles from the Health Source Consumer Edition database):

• SCHARDT, D. (2015). URINE TROUBLE. Nutrition Action Health Letter, 42(10), 9-11.

• LALIBERTE, R. (2015). Leaky Bladder. Prevention, 67(7), 52-54. • Living with bladder problems. (2015). Mayo Clinic Health Letter, 33(1), 3. • What you can do about incontinence. (2013). Harvard Women's Health

Watch, 20(9), 4-5. • The Minor Leaks. (2014). Nutrition Action Health Letter, 41(2), 5.

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Organizations

• The Urology Care Foundation - http://www.urologyhealth.org/ - This is the official foundation for the American Urological Association.

• The Simon Foundation for Continence - www.simonfoundation.org - From the website: The mission of the Simon Foundation is to: "Bring the topic of incontinence out into the open, remove the stigma surrounding incontinence, and provide help and hope to people with incontinence, their families and the health professionals who provide their care."

• National Association for Continence (NAFC) - http://www.nafc.org/urinary-incontinence/ - From the website: NAFC's purpose is to be the leading source for public education and advocacy about the causes, prevention, diagnosis, treatments, and management alternatives for incontinence.