Lancioni, Giulio E., Singh, Nirbhay N., O’Reilly, Mark F., Sigafoos, Jeff, Bosco, Andrea, Zonno, Nadia, Badagliacca, Francesco

This study assessed whether three patients with Alzheimer’s disease could learn to use urine alarms and caregivers’ prompts to eliminate large urinary accidents. As soon as the patient began to release urine, the alarm system presented auditory and vibratory signals. In relation to those signals, the caregiver would prompt/encourage the patient to stop urinating and […]

Wenger, Neil S., Roth, Carol P., Shekelle, Paul G., Young, Roy T., Solomon, David H., Kamberg, Caren J., Chang, John T., Louie, Rachel, Higashi, Takahiro, MacLean, Catherine H., Adams, John, Min, Lillian C., Ransohoff, Kurt, Hoffing, Marc, Reuben, David B.

Objectives: To determine whether a practice-based intervention can improve care for falls, urinary incontinence, and cognitive impairment.; Design: Controlled trial.; Setting: Two community medical groups.; Participants: Community-dwelling patients (357 at intervention sites and 287 at control sites) aged 75 and older identified as having difficulty with falls, incontinence, or cognitive impairment.; Intervention: Intervention and control […]

Isik, A. T., Celik, T., Bozoglu, E., Doruk, H.

Objectives: Cholinesterase inhibitors for the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and antimuscarinic agents for the treatment of urge urinary incontinence (UUI) may reduce the potential effect of each other in the patients with both diseases. Trospium has a relatively low lipophilicity and low CNS penetration, and galantamine, a cholinesterase inhibitors, has also allosterically modulates nicotinic […]