The effectiveness of the Attends Product Selector Tool in continence management in a care home setting.

Qualified nurses are accountable for selecting a suitable containment product for care home residents, which can be challenging for both the resident and health professional. Absorbent incontinence products are the most commonly used products for containing leakage. The purpose of this observational study was to review and understand how effective the Attends Product Selector Tool is when used to assess a resident for an appropriate disposable incontinence product and the in-use experience of products in relation to containment, product use and effectiveness.

Attends Slip with S-form: a new design of an all-in-one product.

Disposable absorbent containment products (continence pads) should only be used after a thorough assessment of the client's needs with regard to preference, independence, comfort and security. This article offers a list of criteria that can be used to examine the quality of products. It then looks at a new product using this criteria.