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Our management has gone down the extreme route of issuing out only one weeks pads at a time.Each resident is continence assessed and then,if they are assessed for three pads a day they are only issued with 21.hard questions are asked if they run out before the next issue.If they are regularly running out of pads then they are reassessed for a bigger size.

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Here is an aside. Who ever came up with the toileting/changing every 2 hours? It is NOT normal to be put on the toilet every 2 hours. I don't know one person who actually pees every 2 hours. Again we carry on with outdated standards because no one has the nerve to question what's 'always been done'.

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Originally Posted by CapeCodMermaid

Here is an aside. Who ever came up with the toileting/changing every 2 hours? It is NOT normal to be put on the toilet every 2 hours. I don't know one person who actually pees every 2 hours. Again we carry on with outdated standards because no one has the nerve to question what's 'always been done'.

I agree with that.Research has been carried out that found that if you toilet every 2 hours then the bladder will expect to empty every two hours.The trick in retraining is to lengthen the time between toileting so that the bladder can wait for longer periods.Of course this is less convenient for carers who are rushing about so the old change 2 hourly continues.We have a check 2 hourly but if the pad is not wet enough to change it is not changed which i find thoroughly degrading to the individual but that is our policy brought about by a tight budget on continence products.