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Incontinence management and retraining
Long-Term Care Nursing Advisor, May 5, 2006
Bowel and bladder retraining is an active program that involves teaching the resident to identify sensations and relearn how to control the bladder.
Residents relearn how to resist the urge to void and become used to emptying the bladder at progressively increasing intervals. This is also an assessment-based program that is done according to an individualized resident schedule. It does not involve toileting every two hours.
Residents who have been recently admitted to the facility after an acute illness are often good candidates for active retraining. Most of these individuals have been living at home and have only recently lost bladder control. Beginning treatment early optimizes results.
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