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- Title
Continence Care for Obese Nursing Home Residents.
- Authors
Bradway, Christine; Miller, Elizabeth; Heivly, Amy; Fleshner, Irene
- Abstract
The article describes and explains current nursing practices related to continence and obesity in the nursing home setting. The demographic characteristics and co-morbid conditions of obese nursing home residents are described. To analyze medical record data of nursing home residents and describe the study sample, descriptive statistics were used. The implications of the study findings for urologic nursing care and research are given.
- Subjects
OBESITY; URINATION; ELDER care; NURSING care facilities; OVERWEIGHT persons
- Publication
Urologic Nursing, 2010, Vol 30, Issue 2, p121
- ISSN
1053-816X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7257/1053-816X.2010.30.2.121