Advancing the Knowledge in Continence Care

Given that the majority of people do not find a cure for incontinence today and that especially older people due to impairments can be challenged in their daily continence care, Essity would like to advance the knowledge of daily toileting – and containment care. Essity is doing this by e.g. breaking taboos and showing the shared value of continence care as well as initiating studies in this area in collaboration with academic researcher and experts in this field, both for people living in residential care as well as in the community. The ambition with the studies is always to study how we can improve the daily continence care for different needs in different situations for people affected by incontinence. 

Publications

• Effectiveness of a Smart Urinary Continence Care Assessment
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• Clinical trial using the TENA SmartCare Change Indicator in a home environment
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• Tailoring continence management to individual needs in residential care
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• Shared value report: Self-management of incontinence
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• Hygiene and Health Report 2020-21
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• Development of a Toileting and Containment Decision Support Tool
  Which questions to ask for defining a person centered Toileting and Containment Care strategy?
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• Development of quality outcome indicators to improve the quality of urinary and faecal continence care
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• Developing an Internationally -Applicable Service Specification for Continence Care: Systematic review, Evidence synthesis and Expert consensus
  Optimum Continence Service Specification
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• Cost-Effectiveness of Including a Nurse Specialist in the Treatment of Urinary Incontinence in Primary Care in the Netherlands.
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• The increasing importance of a continence nurse specialist to improve outcomes and save costs of urinary incontinence care
  An analysis of future policy scenarios
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• Can Incontinence be cured? A Systematic review of cure rates.
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• Impact of incontinence on the quality of life of caregivers of older persons with incontinence: A qualitative study in four European countries
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• The impact of incontinence management on informal caregivers' quality of life.
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  Download Infographic "Impact of incontinence on Care Giving Relatives"
  

• Continence care for people with dementia living at home in Europe: a review of literature with a focus on problems and challenges
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  Download Alzheimer Europe Continence Care guidelines for people with dementia
  

• Rationale and Design of a Novel Method to Assess the Usability of Body-Worn Absorbent Incontinence Care Products by Caregivers
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