
Best to be blunt: Of course it's awkward and embarrassing to discuss a loved one's incontinence with him or her, let alone to have to change adult diapers (a.k.a. adult briefs these days). Private matters turned team project usually are.
Unfortunately, the net effect of nobody wanting to talk about his or her adult diaper stories is stressful caregiver isolation. A new survey on dealing with incontinence by Caring.com and SCA, makers of Tena incontinence products, finds that one in three caregivers avoids discussing the subject with a loved one altogether because it's too "embarrassing and difficult." (Most of the 500-plus respondents, all caregivers with incontinence-care experience, were boomer-age women.) And 42 percent say they get depressed about dealing with a loved one's incontinence.
That's a disheartening conspiracy of silence. It's also a silence that prevents worn-down caregivers, as well as those struggling with incontinence, from getting the help they need... Read more












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