Mayo Clinic on Incontinence, 1st Edition

The easy-to-understand book, Mayo Clinic on Incontinence, provides strategies and treatments for improving bladder and bowel control. The book can provide hope and assurance for those with incontinence with its primary message that incontinence is not something that they must live with. Most incontinence can be improved or cured. Each chapter provides strategies and advice for eliminating bothersome symptoms for those recently diagnosed with incontinence as well as those who have lived for years with the condition. The book goes into detail in discussing behavior and lifestyle changes, medications, medical devices, and surgeries for incontinence.

• By Paul Pettit, M.D. and Anita Chen, M.D.
• Urinary incontinence increases with age, but it isn’t a normal part of aging
• Incontinence affects both men and women, however, it’s twice as common in women than in men