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Disclaimer: There are affiliate links in this article.If you click and buy the products,commissions will be earned by me at no cost to you.Thanks for the anticipated understanding.. As babies our bladders and bowels function involuntarily and automatically. In early childhood we are trained to identify acceptable places and control excretion by the discipline of praise (keeping dry and not wetting the bed). Once control has been achieved any failure causes embarrassment which continues to occur at any age. To avoid this, only ‘acceptable’ voiding is allowed so a given individual must be able to identify an acceptable place and get there safely. Advancing age and increasing disability can lower the threshold for control but incontinence is not an inevitable outcome of ageing. Incontinence is an involuntary loss of urine or faeces in an inappropriate place. This implies that there were no physical or psychological barriers preventing access to an acceptable place but despite this ...