Does incontinence affect life expectancy in the elderly?

With active care, incontinent elderly people usually do not cause problems with the vital organs of the organism and do not affect life expectancy. Urinary incontinence refers to the loss of the patient’s ability to control bowel movements and urination. The main causes include spinal cord injury, injury to the central nervous system of the brain and so on. Once incontinence occurs, attention should be paid to the timely care of the patient, care methods include cleaning up after the bowel movement in a timely manner, avoiding infections, and changing the urine bag on a regular basis. The following should be done: 1. Pay attention to clean up after each bowel movement. 2. If there is an indwelling catheter or urine bag, attention should be paid to timely replacement and cleaning. If the elderly have urgency and pain of urination, etc., the urine should be retained in time for examination. 3. If there is any infection, anti-infection treatment should be carried out under the guidance of the doctor.