[Relationship between unwanted urine loss to other limitations in function].

A limited analysis of the data of the continuous health enquiry of the Central Statistics Office regarding forms of physical impairment of the non-institutionalized Dutch population and of some data on physical ability of nursing home patients, carried out in 1991 by the Health Care Information Centre Foundation, confirmed the supposition that the risk of unwanted urine loss is substantially higher in patients with disability with respect to locomotion, changing posture, purposeful action, communication and condition. This proved to be the case at all ages, in both sexes, and in those living alone and together with others. Further investigation is necessary to determine the connection of these various forms of impairment with each other and with involuntary urine loss, with a view to promoting efficient diagnostic and therapeutic coping with involuntary urine loss; special attention should be paid to the question to what extent the disorders and limitations contribute to the actual handicap.