Taking Stock: Incompetent at incontinence – why are we ignoring the needs of incontinence sufferers?
Benedicte Hafskjold, Benedicte Hafskjold;
Biserka Pop-Stefanija, Biserka Pop-Stefanija;
Chelsea Giles-Hansen, Chelsea Giles-Hansen;
Eric Weerts, Eric Weerts;
Erin Flynn, Erin Flynn;
Jane Wilbur, Jane Wilbur;
Kate Brogan, Kate Brogan;
Kweku Ackom, Kweku Ackom;
Michelle Farrington, Michelle Farrington;
Minja Peuschel, Minja Peuschel;
+4 more...Nicole Klaesener-Metzner, Nicole Klaesener-Metzner;
Ricardo Pla Cordero, Ricardo Pla Cordero;
Sue Cavill, Sue Cavill;
Sarah House, Sarah House;
(2016)
Taking Stock: Incompetent at incontinence – why are we ignoring the needs of incontinence sufferers?
Waterlines, 35 (3).
pp. 219-227.
ISSN 0262-8104
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3362/1756-3488.2016.018
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How would you cope if you had no control over how you urinated or defecated and regularly or constantly leaked urine or faeces? How would this make you feel? How would you deal with the smell, with the indignity? What if you were a young teenager, traumatized by very stressful events and returned to bed-wetting as a result? And what would you do if you didn’t have the money to buy spare underwear or incontinence protection products or those are simply not available to you? Could you manage if you were suddenly displaced in an emergency and did not have access to a toilet, shower or bathing facilities, or your usual materials and coping mechanisms? What if you lived in a camp and your toilet or bathing shelter was a 5 minute walk away and had a long line in front of it? Would you be able to stand in line at food distribution or water collection points, go to school, or look for or undertake work?
