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Urinary and faecal incontinence and dementia

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2005

Carlos Verdejo Bravo
Carlos Verdejo Bravo
Affiliation:
Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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Extract

Continence is a basic function that should be maintained in healthy elderly people, regardless of age. Loss of continence should be interpreted as a dysfunction of either the lower urinary tract or bowel, or of some other system that participates in the maintenance of continence, especially the nervous system.

Type
Research Article
Information
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , May 2004 , pp. 129 - 136
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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