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. 2015 Mar 30;56(4):266–275. doi: 10.4111/kju.2015.56.4.266

Table 1. Treatment of geriatric urinary incontinence.

Type Treatment
Urge 1. Toileting programs (timed voiding, toilet habit training, and prompted voiding)
2. Lifestyle modifications (adequate fluid intake, tapering caffeine, maintaining healthy weight, and regular bowel habits)
3. Pelvic floor muscle training and exercise
4. Bladder retraining with urge suppression
5. Drug therapy (antimuscarinic, beta-3 adrenergic agonist)
6. Intravesical injection of botulinum toxin
7. Electrical stimulation, neuromodulation
Stress 1. Pelvic floor muscle training and exercise (with biofeedback, weighted vaginal cones)
2. Lifestyle modification (adequate fluid intake, stop smoking, diet and medication, maintaining healthy weight, and regular bowel habits)
3. Drug therapy (serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor)
4. Surgery (midurethral sling, injection of periurethral bulking agent, and insertion of an artificial sphincter)
Overflow 1. Drug therapy (α-adrenergic antagonist, anticholinergic, 5 alpha-reductase inhibitor, cholinergic agent)
2. Assistive voiding techniques (double voiding, Credé or Valsalva maneuver)
3. Surgery
Functional 1. Toileting programs (prompted voiding)
2. Lifestyle modification (adequate fluid intake)
3. Management of causative or contributing conditions
4. Improvement of mobility