Urinary Incontinence and the Psychopathology of the Elderly with Cognitive Failure
作者:
G.E. Berrios,
期刊:
Gerontology
(Karger Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 32,
issue 2
页码: 119-124
ISSN:0304-324X
年代: 1986
DOI:10.1159/000212775
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Urinary incontinence;Dementia;Cognitive failure
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
Thirty-five percent of a sample of 100 elderly patients suffering from a degree of cognitive impairment were found to have urinary incontinence. They were significantly older, had lower memory and information scores and were more disorientated, hyperactive, aphasic, apraxic and socially incompetent than their continent counterparts. Their diagnosis was more likely to be a combination of senile and arteriosclerotic dementia (ICD-9); they suffered less often from concomitant functional psychiatric disease and showed a higher mortality rate (at 18 months’ follow-up) than the patients without incontinenc
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