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Urinary and faecal incontinence and dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2005

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

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
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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