Urinary disturbance in elder patients -Characteristic and problems based on the sex-.

In the elderly person, various urinary symptoms are developed regardless of man and woman by a physical change with the aging. In elder men, we often recognize the progress of the urinary disturbance with the progress of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Based on the recent increase of prostate cancer patients, the number of elder patients treated with radi- cal prostatectomy or radiotherapy for prostate is increasing. After treatment for prostate can- cer, the elderly patients with stress urinary incontinence after the radical prostatectomy and urinary disturbance after radiotherapy such as brachytherapy or external beam radiation are increasing. In elder women, stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse associated with the weakening of the pelvic floor are increasing. In this report, I focused on elderly men's and women's characteristic of the urinary disturbance, and also reviewed the present features and problems of these diseases.