The website for the Continence Promotion Committee of the International Continence Society. The International Continence Society actively encourage continence promotion throughout the world. The Continence Promotion Committee exists to promote education, services and public awareness about incontinence throughout the world, and to facilitate communication, exchange of information and partnerships between continence organisations. Click here for more featured content NEWS... HEARING THE PATIENTS VOICE - MODELS FOR LISTENING WORLD CONTINENCE WEEK JUNE 2009, A SUCCESSFUL GLOBAL EVENT
The ICS Continence Promotion Committee launched a very successful global event:
THE FIRST WORLD CONTINENCE DAY ANNOUNCED IN CAIRO
OCTOBER 24, 2008.
The first World Continence Day was announced in Cairo at October 24, 2008
during the Continence Promotion Committee's 2nd Public Forum by Sherif
Mourad, 2008 Annual Meeting Chair and Diane Newman, CPC Chair. CHALLENGES TO CONTINENCE PROMOTION IN THE MIDDLE
EAST
"OUTCOMES OF CONTINENCE AWARENESS PROGRAMMES" "MODELS FOR PUBLIC FORUMS ON CONTINENCE AWARENESS" "CURRENT INITIATIVES FOR
INCREASING CONTINENCE AWARENESS"
Chairperson Diane Newman opened the workshop presenting
the ICI "Continence Awareness" recommendations, which is the first chapter in
the new edition of the ICI "Continence Bible".
Lynne Van Poelgeest-Pomfret, Linda Crumlin and Francoise Nicole Kremer. WFIP
EMBRACE AWARD CONTINENCE PROMOTION COMMITTEE
WORKSHOP IN PARIS AUGUST 24, 2004
THE INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATION ON INCONTINENCE, MONACO, JUNE 26-29, 2004.
The goal of the Consultation is to both raise awareness and reach a consensus on universal treatment guidelines. The establishment of guidelines is a crucial step in the effort to identify and treat the millions of people currently suffering from bladder control problems throughout the world. The consultation, in addition to setting guidelines will also prioritise a research programme for the next five years. The International Consultation on Incontinence has included a committee on “Promotion, organisation and education in continence care”. On an international basis the International Continence Society, ICS should continue to facilitate and hasten collaborations enabling developments in continence care worldwide. At the consultation, Diane Newman, Chair of the committee on “Promotion, organisation and education in continence care”, presented a new survey. read more NETWORKING MEETING FOR NATIONAL CONTINENCE ORGANISATIONS IN ITALY 2700 health care experts from around the world assembled for the annual meeting of the International Continence Society, ICS, in Florence, Italy, on October 5-9, 2003. This year the Continence Promotion Committee celebrated it's 10 Anniversary. It was celebrated with a workshop, a fair and the launch of a special 10th anniversary souvenir edition of the newsletter Continence Worldwide. There was also a keynote presentation by David Fonda to the plenum of the conference this year to celebrate the work of the Continence Promotion Committee and future directions. read more UNDERSTANDING THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE STIGMA OF INCONTINENCE
RECENT ADVANCES IN FEMALE UROLOGY, URINARY INCONTINENCE, NEUROUROLOGY AND AGEING PELVIC FLOOR IN INDIA An international conference will focus on solving the problems of female urology and the pelvic floor. Many leading experts from the Asia-Pacific region, the USA and Europe will be sharing their experience during the event. It is organised by the Asia Pacific Continence Advisory Board, the Asian Society for Female Urology and the Indian Continence Foundation and is coming up in Bangalore, India, November 14-17, 2003. read more THE ROLE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF INCONTINENCE
TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF CONTINENCE WORLDWIDEWe are delighted to bring you a new issue of Continence Worldwide. This year we celebrate the tenth anniversary with comprehensive contributions from: The Canadian Continence Foundation, Gesellschaft für Inkontinenzhilfe, Incontact, Pelvic Floor Netherlands, The Polish Continence Organisation - NTM Forum, The Pelvic Floor Patients foundation - SBP, The Simon Foundation, The Society for Continence Singapore and The New Zealand Continence Association, as well as a newly improved layout developed by Dr.Vasan Satya Srini. read more
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The CPC workshop at ICS annual meeting in San Fransisco 2009 highlighted some
of the models of the worldwide programs that have been effective at focusing on
the need of patients, including all age groups. Specifically programs for
children and indigenous populations in Australia was in focus. Chairman of the
workshop was Dr Vasan Satya Srini.
THE
FIRST CPC SUPPORTED PUBLIC FORUM
This CPC
workshop was held at ICS 2007 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
"Measuring the outcome of continence awareness programs". Ian Holland, Continence Foundation UK,
presented the organisation and planning of the "Continence Awareness Week"
September 2007 in UK and Christa Thiel, German Continence Society, presented
"Public Forums 1990 - 2007".
Different models of public forums held around the world were presented at the annual CPC
workshop at ICS 2006 in Christchurch, New Zealand. 
Australia, Nancy Mueller,
National
Association
for Incontinence, Jacquie
Lodewyke, Continence
Foundation of Australia, Rani
Vadiveloo, Society for
Continence
Singapore, Tamara Dickinson, Society for Urologic Nurses
& Associates
U.S. and Ilan
Gruenwald, Israel.
was
the theme of the Continence Promotion Committee Workshop
meeting of the International Continence Society in Montreal August 31,
2005.
The
new patient founded association, the World Federation of Incontinence Patients
(WFIP) was present at the
workshop. It was decided that the CPC Committee would embrace the WFIP to
collaborate with them as there are common goals and objectives.
At the
joint meeting of the International Continence Society (ICS) and the International
Uro Gynecological Association (IUGA) 23-27 August in Paris a CPC workshop
was held.
Twenty-five
expert committees evaluated the breadth and depth of the incontinence
problem worldwide. They covered issues ranging from the prevalence of
bladder control problems to continence promotion and to the economic and
quality of life impact bladder control problems have on a local, regional,
national and global level. In each committee the published evidence was
reviewed and presented for discussion to the Consultation.
The
Simon Foundation for Continence was sponsoring an international conference, in
Chicago, June 25 - 27, 2003 to celebrate the launch of Simon's third
decade. The conference draw upon the knowledge from many disciplines such
as health psychology and medical anthropology, to better understand how stigma
can be removed from incontinence, The conference was co-chaired by Alan
Cottenden, PhD.(U.K.), Professor Christine Norton (U.K.), Anita Saltmarch, RN,
MSN (Canada) and Cheryle Gartley, President and Founder, the Simon Foundation
for Continence (U.S.) 
Each
year at the meeting of the International Continence Society, the
Continence Promotion Committee holds a workshop. The last year the theme was around the role of the General Practitioners,
in the assessment and management of incontinence. It was an
opportunity for those running national continence organisations
and others to exchange ideas and information. A comprehensive article, " Targeting General
Practioners in Continence Care", by Diane Newman is summing up the workshop