What is a continence care plan?
A continence care plan can offer support with your discreet and personal needs.
Carers UK describes continence care as the ability to control movements of the bowels and bladder. Urinary incontinence is the unintentional passing of urine, bowel incontinence is where you are unable to pass faeces in the intended way and both types is referred to as double incontinence. A continence care plan is tailored around you and can support your specific continence care needs, helping with changing and maintaining stoma bags, changing continence pads and cleaning intimate areas.
Why should I have a continence care plan?
If you are experiencing incontinence, a continence care plan could be for you.
Dealing with incontinence can be frustrating and upsetting. The NHS says that incontinence can occur for many reasons, including urinary tract infections, tweaking of the pelvic floor muscles and the urethral sphincter, obesity and increasing age. If you are experiencing incontinence, our care can help you get on top of it, implement ways of managing it and keep an eye on any decline. Our personal care can help with continence care including catheter and stoma care and general hygiene.
Do I need a care plan?
Our continence care plan may be the perfect choice for you if you experience trouble with the following:
What should an effective continence care plan include?
Continence care should look after any incontinence problems such as urine and bowel incontinence.
Catheter care
We can support catheters, which are tubes that are inserted into the bladder and allow urine to pass through into a drainage bag.
Urostomy care
If you have had urostomy surgery and you require support, supervision or full assistance with the care of your urostomy, we can help.
Urinary sheath
We can help you with your urinary sheath to help with any incontinence in a dignified and hygienic manner.
Hygiene care
A carer can help with toileting, changing continence pads, cleaning intimate areas and your general hygiene.
Bowel management
Our bowel management care covers medication management, through colostomy care where surgical intervention has taken place.
Exercise
Pelvic floor exercises are beneficial to improve bladder control and strengthen the muscles which will improve your overall incontinence.
Dietary habits
Decrease alcohol and caffeine drinks such as tea and coffee. These “can cause your kidneys to produce more urine and irritate the bladder.”
Emotional well-being
Consistently reassure your loved one and encourage them to remain positive when to comes to getting to grips with their incontinence.
How can I create my own care plan?
We can tailor a care plan for continence care to suit you! We offer live-in care, visiting care and respite personal care to fit around your schedule. From stoma and catheter care to general bathing and dressing each morning, our carers are superbly qualified at handling both the medical side of things as well as the hygienic side. With our discreet care, you can retain the healthy, comfortable and dignified way of life you’re used to and with us, you’ll be in the best of hands – Helping Hands!
A continence care plan can help:
3 simple steps…
How to organise care
Speak to our team
Our friendly, knowledgeable team can answer your questions and talk you through your options. We are available 7 days a week.
Book a free care assessment
Your local Helping Hands care manager will visit you to understand your needs and preferences and discuss how we can help. We can visit you at home, in hospital or even a care home to carry out the care assessment.
Confirm your care package
We create a tailored care plan for you to review. Once you’ve agreed the plan, we can organise care in as little as 24 hours.
How Helping Hands can help
We offer live-in, visiting and respite care to help with your continence care needs.
Visiting Care
Live-in care
A fully regulated home care provider
Here at Helping Hands, our service is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW)
This means we need to consistently meet high standards and are monitored by our regulators.
