Pilot Study - Patient Education and Pelvic Strength Exercises in Elderly Women With Incontinence.

The Effect of Group-, Individual-, and Ultrasound Guided Pelvic Floor Training on Incontinence

It will be investigate if women with a diaper grant in Aalborg Municipality can reduce diaper size and thus costs for diapers in the municipality through meetings with a incontinence nurse and pelvic floor exercises.

Incontinence is a world wide challenge especially in elderly women. The participation in pelvic floor exercises can to some extent help women with urinary incontinency. In the Municipality of Aalborg in Denmark, the citizens can get a diaper grant, if they are incontinence. The project will be recruiting women with diaper grants and randomly allocate the women to 3 different groups 1) Group training (usual care), 2) Individual training and 3) Individual training with biofeedback in the form of ultrasound. All groups will receive the same incontinence education from the incontinence nurses and physiotherapists. The Women will be offered 6 individual or 10 group base trainings, with increased time between trainings, to increase the participants independency and rely more on home based exercises.

Inclusion Criteria:

Diaper grant

• Urinary incontinency Living in own home in Aalborg Municipality

Exclusion Criteria:

• Dementia Inability to transport herself to the training facility neurological diseases inability to understand Danish or bring a translator