Understanding approaches to continence care for people living with dementia in acute hospital settings: an ethnographic study

Featherstone, Katie, Northcott, Andy, Boddington, Paula, Edwards, Deborah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1885-9297, Vougioukalou, Sofia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0788-0373, Bale, Sue, Harrison Dening, Karen, Logan, Karen, Tope, Rosie, Kelly, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1847-0655, Jones, Aled ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2921-8236, Askey, Jackie and Harden, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8158-6450 2022. Understanding approaches to continence care for people living with dementia in acute hospital settings: an ethnographic study. Health and Social Care Delivery Research 10 , 14. 10.3310/QUVV2680

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Abstract

This study found continence care was often deprioritised to reduce interruptions to ward timetables, establishing 'pad cultures' negatively impacting individuals and reliant on placing incontinence pads on continent older people.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Healthcare Sciences
Additional Information:	This is an Open Access publication distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 licence
Publisher:	NIHR Journals Library
ISSN:	2755-0060
Funders:	NIHR Health Services & Delivery Programme
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	22 June 2022
Date of Acceptance:	21 June 2022
Last Modified:	06 Dec 2023 02:09
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/150631

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