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Project leader

Project Members

Lena Dahlberg
Kevin McKee
Mary Gilhooly, Brunel University
Stuart Parker, Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing University of Sheffield

Project Period

01-05-2009 - 30-04-2012

Project Status

Completed

Description

Aims
1.To compare specialist versus standard incontinence care in terms of patient and carer psychosocial, health, and service use outcomes.
2.To investigate the concordance in older peoples', carers' and health and social care professional's views on care approaches to continence management and incontinence service characteristics.

Objectives
1.To compare health, psychosocial and service use outcomes for older people (and their family carers) who attend specialist continence clinics with those in receipt of standard continence care.
2.To investigate how older people with incontinence perceive the cause of their condition, and their attitudes to and perceived barriers to seeking help and treatment.
3.To determine the acceptability to people with Incontinence and their family carers of new technologies and different forms of continence interventions.
4.To investigate how older people with incontinence, and their family carers, perceive their health and social care service needs and the preferred characteristics of those services.

Methods
Study 1 - Patient interviews
Study 2 - Health and social care service manager interviews

Keywords

Research Profile

Health and Social Welfare

Subject

Social Work

Financiers

Economic and Social Research Council

Publications

Vethanayagam, Natalie, Orrell, Alison, Dahlberg, Lena, McKee, Kevin, Orme, Susan, Parker, Stuart G, Gilhooly, Mary. Understanding help-seeking in older people with urinary incontinence : An interview study, Health & Social Care in the Community, 2017, Vol. 25, No. 3, 1061-1069. Article : refereed.
Orrell, Alison, McKee, Kevin, Dahlberg, Lena, Gilhooly, Mary, Parker, Stuart. Improving continence services for older people from the service-providers’ perspective : a qualitative interview study, BMJ Open, 2013, Vol. 3, No. 7. Article : refereed.
van den Heuvel, Eleanor, Gilhooly, Mary, Sutherland, Ian, Jowitt, Felicity, McKee, Kevin, Dahlberg, Lena, Parker, Stuart, Gaydecki, Patrick, Ratcliffe, Norman, Bichard, Jo-Anne, Long, Adele, Cotterill, Nikki, Orme, Susie. Tackling ageing continence through theory, tools and technology (TACT³), NDA findings, 2013. Report.
Gilhooly, M. L., van den Heuvel, E., Jowitt, F., Sutherland, I., Bichard, J., Long, A., McKee, Kevin, Dahlberg, Lena. Vibrating underpants, smell sensors and hospital continence services : tools and technologies for improving the lives of people with incontinence, The Gerontologist, 2012, Vol. 52, No. s1, 185-185. Article : refereed.

Research Project: Tackling Ageing Continence through Theory, Tools and Thechnology (TACT3)