{"title":"Urinary incontinence products and innovation in care.","authors":"Sarah Jane Palmer","doi":"10.12968/bjcn.2026.0031","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Urinary incontinence can have a significant impact on a person's emotional wellbeing and overall quality of life. For community nurses, product selection and reassessment are essential to meet the needs of the patient with incontinence. This involves the judicious use of absorbent products and emerging monitoring technologies. This article summarises current containment options, reviews recent research on technological innovations and explores implications for community nursing practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":35731,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Community Nursing","volume":"31 6","pages":"268-270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2026-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"British Journal of Community Nursing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2026.0031","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/5/27 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Nursing","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Urinary incontinence can have a significant impact on a person's emotional wellbeing and overall quality of life. For community nurses, product selection and reassessment are essential to meet the needs of the patient with incontinence. This involves the judicious use of absorbent products and emerging monitoring technologies. This article summarises current containment options, reviews recent research on technological innovations and explores implications for community nursing practice.
期刊介绍:
British Journal of Community Nursing (BJCN) is the UK"s leading peer-reviewed journal for district nurses, containing the most up-to-date clinical coverage and research on primary care nursing. The journal promotes excellence in clinical practice with an emphasis on the sharing of expertise and innovation in district nursing. Articles are written by nurses from across the community nursing spectrum, and peer-reviewed by leading authorities in primary care to make sure that the journal addresses all aspects of the profession in a way that is relevant, intelligent and accessible, and so useful in daily practice.