Best practice for the management of Incontinence Associated Dermatitis

Presenter: Kerry Poole Nurse Continence Specialist – Victorian Continence Resource Centre.’

• One in four Australians aged 15 years or over are incontinent
• Almost 129,000 Residential Aged Care (RAC) residents (70.9 %) have urinary or faecal incontinence (or both).
• Economic impact of incontinence in Australia for residential aged care facilities is 7.1 billion (2011)