This year World Continence Week 2025 will, as always, take place in the third week of June (16-22 June 2025).
TWO SPECIAL WEBINARS HAVE BEEN ORGANIZED:
1) Monday 16th June 2025 at 15.30-16.30 hrs (CET)
A webinar introducing the Patient Decision Aids (PDA): supporting shared decision-making in 1) Overactive Bladder (OAB) and 2) Faecal Incontinence (FI)
Join us as we present the outputs of the patient decision aid documents in overactive bladder and faecal incontinence. This session will provide an outline of the co-creation and validation process, including insights into the content, design and reception of these tools from the patient and healthcare professional perspectives, highlighting the value of collaboration across stakeholders in supporting improved shared decision-making in pelvic health.
Agenda:
Speaker introduction – 5 mins
Main presentation – 30 mins
• Understanding and supporting shared decision making
• Fostering a collaborative environment for co-creation and validation
• Introducing the Patient Decision Aid on OAB
• Introducing the Patient Decision Aid on FI
Reception and dissemination: Q&A with guests – 10 mins
Questions – 5 mins
Speakers:
Jasmine Malone, OPEN Health, joined by guest members of the steering committee(s) involved in the PDA development
2) Friday 20th June 2025 at 16.00-17.30 hrs (CET).
A webinar on Continence Care and Healthy Ageing
WFIPP is one of the consortium members of the PROCON Project. PROCON fosters innovation in nursing homes (NHs), specifically in the promotion of modern continence care in NH residents.
Agenda/Speakers:
16.00-16.15 hrs
Javier Jerez Roig, Professor (Serra Hunter fellow) in the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC)
• Introduction
• “Keep-on-Keep-up” (KOKU Bladder project)
16.15-16.45 hrs
Adrian Wagg, Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry – Medicine Dept University of Alberta
• Improving care delivery in care homes
16.15-16.45 hrs
Wiliam Gibson, Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta.
• Improving care delivery in care homes
16.45-17.10 hrs
Hannelore Strauven, Postdoctoral researcher at the e-Media Research Lab of KU Leuven
• PROmoting CONtinence in nursing homes (PROCON)
17.10-17.30 hrs
• Q&A