NIH R01 · 2024
Project Summary/Abstract Urgency urinary incontinence (UUI) is a biomarker of falls risk and disproportionately affects older minority women living in urban communities. Over 50% of an estimated 10 million women age 70 and older with UUI will experience a fall. A fall compounds the functional dependency already present in older women with UUI making their quality of life worse than that following a stroke. This proposal addresses a key research gap: existing fall prevention interventions cannot be applied to women with UUI and effective interventions that reduce falls in older community-dwelling women with UUI are lacking. Our objective is to establish the effectiveness of a novel…
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