Evidence of limited evidence: A systematic review of continence management interventions to reduce falls in older adults

摘要

Falls are common in older adults. Approximately one in three people over the age of 65 experiences at least one fall each year [1] and multiple factors are implicated, including environmental, social and physiological factors. Incontinence is also more common in older people than in the younger age group. Forty-three per cent of Australian women and 7% of Australian men over the age of 60 report symptoms of stress incontinence compared with 18% of women and 1% of men aged 15-39 years [2]. The prevalence rate of incontinence is much higher in residential aged care facilities, where 70.9% of residents have urinary or faecal incontinence or symptoms of both [3].