Continence - Aged Care Quality Standard 3

This course covers the following:

• Bladder continence management
• Bowel continence management
• Dementia and continence care

Business Objectives

Incontinence is often one of the deal breakers for people to move to residential aged care. This learning activity looks at common causes of incontinence and a range of strategies to support the persons’ independence and reduce the impact of incontinence in their daily lives. A person centred approach to assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating continence is presented to the learner. Continence aligns to Standard 3 of the Aged Care Quality Standards.

Audience

This learning activity is for Aged Care workers