Continence care

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Venue: Dunblane Hydro
Date: Monday 22 February 2016
Time: 8:45am – 4.30pm

Putting theory into practice

The aim of this free event is to reach out to the range of health and social care staff from across the sectors to improve and/or enhance their knowledge around continence care and promotion and to challenge beliefs and assumptions on what it’s like to age and to live with a dysfunctional bowel and bladder.

The Care Inspectorate recognised that the first step to improving continence care outcomes is to start viewing continence as the ‘norm’, instead of emphasising incontinence through the routine use of absorbent pads or urinary catheters.

We are working with a range of stakeholders to promote and improve continence care across a range of care settings. It was in response to this collaboration that there was an appreciation that where poor continence care is in evidence, this greatly impacts upon the lives of people living in and accessing care services including those living in the community and across the NHS.

Jamie Hepburn, Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Health launched the ‘Promoting Continence resource for People Living with Dementia and Long Term Conditions’ on the 5 June 2015. It was felt there was a need for an event that brought together people from across health and social care to share and focus on bowel and bladder rehabilitation approaches and continence promotion strategies that may lead to better continence care outcomes for people who present with a dysfunctional bowel and/or bladder. It is also important to highlight that if good continence care and promotion is not place, it can affect other health and well-being factors. For example, the impact on falls prevention, tissue viability, nutrition, medicines management and the psychological effects on a person.

The conference will promote the ‘continence is everybody’s business’ message and offers a range of workshops to improve outcomes for people living with a dysfunctional bowel and bladder, always on aiming for cure and/or improvement.

Why you should attend

We would like to invite health and social care staff from all care settings who have an interest in taking the bowel and bladder rehabilitation philosophy forward to attend this event.

The programme will have something for everyone as it is looking at the fundamentals of what makes good continence care and management a reality and the impact that it has on the whole person’s health and well-being if continence care is actively promoted and managed.
http://promotingcontinence.careinspectorate.com/

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