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INTO THE VOID: A CAREER IN INCONTINENCE… AND BEYOND

Long-believed inevitable with age, urinary incontinence (UI) --like dementia – has proved neither ineluctable nor untreatable. Moreover, older adults remain continent despite abnormal lower urinary tract (LUT) function! The key is that the LUT is just one risk factor, and incontinence results from c...

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Autor principal: Resnick, Neil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9765559/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.837
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description Long-believed inevitable with age, urinary incontinence (UI) --like dementia – has proved neither ineluctable nor untreatable. Moreover, older adults remain continent despite abnormal lower urinary tract (LUT) function! The key is that the LUT is just one risk factor, and incontinence results from contributors at every level: from drugs and diseases beyond the LUT, to problems of brain and physical function, to multiple issues within the LUT itself. Such insights have provided the rationale for a nontraditional diagnostic and therapeutic strategy, one that has not only improved outcomes but also enabled creation of previously-believed heretical approaches that address the LUT last and only if necessary. In addition, this approach enabled development of Medicare’s Minimum Data Set for frail elderly and, more importantly, may facilitate development of scalable ways to raise the floor of care for other geriatric syndromes as well.
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spelling pubmed-97655592022-12-20 INTO THE VOID: A CAREER IN INCONTINENCE… AND BEYOND Resnick, Neil Innov Aging Abstracts Long-believed inevitable with age, urinary incontinence (UI) --like dementia – has proved neither ineluctable nor untreatable. Moreover, older adults remain continent despite abnormal lower urinary tract (LUT) function! The key is that the LUT is just one risk factor, and incontinence results from contributors at every level: from drugs and diseases beyond the LUT, to problems of brain and physical function, to multiple issues within the LUT itself. Such insights have provided the rationale for a nontraditional diagnostic and therapeutic strategy, one that has not only improved outcomes but also enabled creation of previously-believed heretical approaches that address the LUT last and only if necessary. In addition, this approach enabled development of Medicare’s Minimum Data Set for frail elderly and, more importantly, may facilitate development of scalable ways to raise the floor of care for other geriatric syndromes as well. Oxford University Press 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9765559/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.837 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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