33% of dementia patients also use incontinence drugs. This is a significant problem. Why? This is because there is a study that there is a decline if dementia patients are given incontinence drugs.

The study is conducted by the researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. They said that it is more likely that the oppositional effects of the drugs have contributed to the fast decline. They conducted the research for a year and they noticed and observed that the decline would represent a resident going from requiring only a supervision to requiring extensive assistance in an activity.

The drugs affected seniors in their daily living activities such as the way they dress, personal hygiene, toileting, bed mobility, eating and transferring.

The results of the study has just given clinicians the proper idea that they should continue to try non-drug management strategies for incontinence before beginning therapy with incontinence drug.