This document discusses initiatives to make continence care more sustainable, including rethinking catheter and material use to reduce waste, innovating new therapies, addressing misconceptions among patients and others about incontinence, and improving health literacy through decision aids and easier to understand information. It also calls for scientific organizations and patient groups to join efforts towards a more sustainable future of continence care.

1. Towards a future of sustainable continence
care: 'green' care and therapy initiatives
M.R. van Balken, urologist [The Netherlands]

3. Incontinence consequences

4. Growing problem

5. Rethinking catheter use

6. Rethinking material use

8. Continu innovating therapies

9. Rethinking existing therapies

10. Reaching out for the untreated

11. Misconceptions (patients)

12. Misconceptions (others)

13. Misconceptions (others)

14. Literacy difficulties

15. Tests are difficult

16. Decision aids are difficult

17. Information is difficult

18. Scientific organizations

19. Patient groups

20. Joined efforts