Smart Strategies for Incontinence: On the Job

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Incontinence  at work can undermine your self-confidence and distract you from important tasks at hand.

Smart Strategies for Incontinence:

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Learn how to develop strategies for a "full coverage" incontinence plan.

Survey Says: 50 Top Strategies for Managing Incontinence

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As part of the Parentgiving survey on incontinence, we asked what strategies you've used to control incontinence and whether they've helped. Our 197 respondents graciously shared what's worked.

The Treatment of Urinary Incontinence: It’s Not “One Size Fits All”

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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), an arm of the Department of Health and Human Services, recently published an exhaustive repo...

The Top 5 Causes of Incontinence and 4 Tips to Make Your Caregiving Life Easier

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Time to get over the awkwardness and help your loved one by understanding incontinence—its causes and solutions.

Uncommon Knowledge About Astronauts

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NASA [Public domain] In 1961 when astronaut Alan Shepard was preparing to be the first American launched into space, he realized that NASA...

Incontinence Information

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The term incontinence refers to involuntary or accidental loss of either urine (urinary incontinence) from the bladder, or bowel motion (bowel inc...

For Men Only: The Prostate And Incontinence Question

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While many think of urinary incontinence as a woman’s issue, over 2 million men wrestle with it.

An Unwanted Urge: What Urge Incontinence Means

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Another common type of incontinence is urge incontinence—the strong and sudden need to urinate because of bladder spasms or contractions, leading to frequent urination, day and night

Overcoming The Stress Of Stress Incontinence

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Stress incontinence refers to physical stress put on the bladder by internal forces.

How to Change Soiled Adult Diapers

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There are so many challenges to growing older, and incontinence is one of them. How do you go about helping to change an adult diaper? First, beg...

Advanced Approaches in Managing Incontinence: Can Surgery Help Women?

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According to the experts at the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, surgery can improve stress urinary incontinence symptoms in most women.