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The Caregiver's Journey

Bowel and Bedbound Incontinence: Two Essential Topics / Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias

The Caregiver's Journey

Sue Ryan and Nancy Treaster

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51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

As caregivers for our loved ones with Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia, we’ve learned that full incontinence is an inevitable part of our journey. It’s a topic not often discussed, yet it’s a reality for us to navigate with compassion, dignity, and preparation — for both us and our care receiver. We are Nancy Treaster and Sue Ryan. Through our experiences, we’ve developed 2 valuable tips to help you navigate bowel and bedbound incontinence in your caregiving journey.


Watch Bowel and Bedbound Incontinence: Two Essential Topics / Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias

https://youtu.be/PD4zOctyfPw


Takeaways

Read More in This Blog here

Additional Resources Mentioned

  • Episode 10 - Incontinence Begins here
  • Episode 11 - Cleaning Your Care Receiver here
  • Changing a bedbound care receiver YouTube video here 
  • Changing a Depend with a bowel movement here
  • Disposable incontinence underwear
  • For women here
  • For men here
  • Wheels for bed
  • Bed with rails
  • Wedge pillow
  • Adaptive clothing
  • Shorts snap up here
  • Pants snap up here
  • Very nice adaptive clothing here 
  • Non-rinse bathing wipes here
  • Adult washcloths/wipes here
  • Disposable incontinence pads here
  • Round tipped scissors here
  • Scented small trash can liner here
  • Adult incontinence can here


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Whole Care Network,

0:02.5

helping you tell your story one podcast at a time.

0:16.3

Content presented in the following podcast is for information purposes only.

0:22.7

Views and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the host and guests

0:28.1

and may not represent the views and opinions of the Whole Care Network.

0:33.2

Always consult with your physician for any medical advice.

0:36.8

And always consult with your attorney for any medical advice, and always consult with your

0:38.3

attorney for any legal advice.

0:40.6

And thank you for listening to the Whole Care Network.

0:52.4

We both wish we knew more about incontinence before it began.

0:57.1

We sure do.

0:58.8

For incontinence, we've actually created a five-part series because there's a lot going on with incontinence.

1:06.8

Yes, there is, and it's coming.

1:09.6

It is coming. In this series, we're helping and it's coming. It is coming.

1:11.5

In this series, we're helping you preserve your care receiver's dignity, and we're helping

1:18.0

you become prepared mentally, physically, and emotionally for this part of your caregiving journey.

1:25.6

I mentioned five episodes.

1:27.5

The episodes are, episode nine, preparing for incontinence.

1:33.5

Episode 10, a phrase we coined pre-incontinence and the very beginning of incontinence.

1:42.0

Episode 11, cleaning our care receiver and urinary incontinence.

1:48.0

Episode 12, bedbound and bowel movement incontinence. And episode 13, incontinence overnight.

1:58.0

Nancy and I talk about in our podcasts that we are bringing you the good, the bad, and the

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