Continence aids and equipment
Continence aids and equipment
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Bladder & Bowel UK is a charity providing advice for adults, children and young people with bladder and bowel issues.
Bladder & Bowel UK is a charity providing advice for adults, children and young people with bladder and bowel issues.
The charity also supports families, carers and people providing support. They provide a team of specialist nurses and a product information advisor. They provide specialist advice on bladder and bowel health issues and managing continence. There is also a page listing suppliers.
These are some of the products available.
Following an assessment, the care or support plan should provide you with information about how to support each individual.
Following an assessment, the care or support plan should provide you with information about how to support each individual.
Each individual's needs will have been assessed. When their needs change, you will have to ask for a new needs assessment. Support must always be agreed with the individual. This will include their preference for preferred times and places for using continence aids as well as the level and type of support required for use of equipment
Toilet chairs and commodes
Removable raised toilet seats
Bright coloured toilet seats
Bed or chair raisers
Handrails
Bed wetting alarms
Bedpans and urinals
Vaginal stimulators
Reusable incontinence pants
Reusable incontinence pads
Washable bed pads
Bowel incontinence devices
Rectal irrigation systems
Catheters
Stoma Care Products
Pelvic floor exercisers
Probiotics
These products should be used following a continence assessment.
Bladder & bowel UK have a free national confidential helpline 0161 607 8219.
You can also contact them by email bbuk@disabledliving.co.uk.
This is a link to their website.
You will also find incontinence advice and a wide range of continence products from our partner, Age UK, via their website.
Pads and pants are for accidental leaks. Individuals should never be told to “wee or poo in their pad or pants”.
If you hear or see this, you need to raise a safeguarding concern and follow your employer's safeguarding procedure.
Let's talk about pads...
Let's talk about pads...
Absorbent pads and pull-up pants can be worn inside underwear to soak up urine. They use the same technology as babies nappies that draws moisture away to keep the skin dry. Products can be bought from a supermarket or pharmacies. The NHS do not recommend using sanitary pads as incontinence pads as they do not have the same technology.
People may qualify to receive incontinence products via the NHS (following a needs assessment by a healthcare professional).
People may qualify to receive incontinence products via the NHS (following a needs assessment by a healthcare professional).
Where people have severe problems, the NHS can provide incontinence pads, although they tend to be large and bulky, which can make them uncomfortable.
This NHS blog post provides useful information and a case study about telehealth relating to incontinence and UTIs.
Technology is available for people to use (via the keypad on their phone) to answer questions daily that relate to bladder health and symptoms of urinary tract infections (UTIs).
Technology is available for people to use (via the keypad on their phone) to answer questions daily that relate to bladder health and symptoms of urinary tract infections (UTIs).
This is a discreet way to enable early detection of problems so people can be supported to manage and overcome the challenges they experience.
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