In Nursing Home Residents Urinary incontinence is a common problem among nursing home residents.
Urinary incontinence is a major factor for skin breakdown, and infections.
To try to prevent pressure ulcers and blanchable erythema nursing home residents have to be checked often during the night to prevent these skin conditions from happening. One of the problems that nursing homes are having is disturbing sleep during incontinence care. When the nursing staff makes incontinence care rounds, they wake up the resident by talking in a normal tone of voice, and by turning on bright light. This wakes the resident up and makes it hard for the resident to go back to sleep. The purpose of this study is to individualize incontinence care while minimizing sleep disruption among nursing home residents.