• Functional Incontinence
• Highlights
• Introduction
• Stress Incontinence
• Urge Incontinence
• Overflow Incontinence
• Risk Factors

Functional Incontinence

Patients with functional incontinence have mental or physical disabilities that keep them from urinating normally, although the urinary system itself is intact. Conditions that can lead to functional incontinence include:

• Parkinson's disease
• Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Mental confusion may prevent both recognition of the need to void and locating a bathroom.
• Severe depression. In such cases, people may become incontinent because they have difficulty with...