According to years of clinical performance and research, we know that there are many causes of urinary incontinence, the elderly is a high incidence of urinary incontinence symptoms, which are the causes of urinary incontinence in the elderly? The causes of urinary incontinence in the elderly are mainly divided into three types: 1, pseudo-incontinence: due to the lower urinary tract or bladder force urinary muscle weakness, causing urinary retention, resulting in excessive bladder expansion, bladder pressure, urine forced out, also known as “overflow” incontinence. Such as urethral stricture, prostate enlargement or tumor caused by. 2, true urinary incontinence: due to the bladder forcing muscle sustained tension and excessive relaxation of the urethral sphincter muscle, so that urine can not control the outflow from the bladder. For example, inflammation of the bladder and urethra, bladder stones, bladder tumors, etc. stimulate the bladder, so that the continuous tension of the bladder forcing muscle increases and the pressure in the bladder rises, so that urine cannot be controlled and flows out of the bladder, and in severe cases, urine drips. 3, stress incontinence: because the elderly with the growth of age, its neurological and endocrine function will decline linearly, the ability to control the excretion of urine is poor, once the mental tension, coughing, sneezing, laughing, lifting heavy objects and other sudden increase in intra-abdominal pressure, coupled with the relaxation of the urethral sphincter, urine may be involuntarily discharged from the urethra. The above is a detailed introduction to the causes of urinary incontinence in the elderly. If the symptoms appear in the elderly, they should go to a professional hospital as soon as possible for consultation and symptomatic treatment to. In the treatment at the same time to strengthen the care of patients with urinary incontinence, such as frequent cleaning of the perineum and diligent diaper changes. Drink less soup and thin rice in the evening to avoid increasing the amount of urine and affecting sleep.