The nurse visits an 81-year-old man with a recent diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease who lives at home with his wife (his primary caregiver)
Recently, the man has begun to be incontinent of urine, a development that his wife states accompanied a decline in his cognition. How would the nurse most likely categorize this incontinence? A) Urge incontinence
B) Functional incontinence
C) Overflow incontinence
D) Stress incontinence
B
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Incontinence that results from dementia is classified as functional incontinence rather than urge, overflow, or stress incontinence.
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