Urinary Incontinence in the Elderly : Stress, Urgency, Overflow, Functional

There are several clinical categories on the urinary incontinence. Let us consider one by one.


Stress urinary incontinence

Maybe you've come across people who when laughing or coughing followed by discharge of urine, either a little or a lot. Generally, the incident caused by the weakening of the muscles in the pelvic floor.

Although not the sole cause, but the frequency of occurrence of urinary incontinence due to a weakening of the pelvic muscles. This category incontinence usually occurs in the elderly who are aged in their 70s and often suffered by women.


Urgency urinary incontinence

Some of the neurological problems associated with urinary urgency incontinence, such as dementia, Parkinson's disease, stroke, or spinal cord injury. That occurs in this type of urinary incontinence is the patient complained of insufficient time to get to the toilet, but the urine was out first.

The process is very fast between the desire to urinate and the urine before patients are in the bathroom. This type usually occurs in old age people, over 70s.


Overflow urinary incontinence

Perhaps this type of incontinence rather rare. Uncontrolled urine that comes out in this type of incontinence is associated with the occurrence of prostate enlargement or multiple sclerosis, which can cause the patient to contract the bladder.

Factor drugs can also cause this overflow incontinence. How it happened? Patients who suffer from overflow incontinence is usually only a few passing urine without feeling the sensation when her bladder is full.


Functional urinary incontinence

For this type, mostly occurs due to severe dementia, environmental factors, and psychological factors. In patients who suffer from this type of incontinence is usually accompanied by the emergence of a variety of symptoms and urodynamic picture of the occurrence of more than one type of urinary incontinence.