Abstract
Urinary incontinence (UI) is the involuntary loss of piss in frequency that provokes a socialproblem or of hygiene that comes being attributed to the aging process. In this riot an overwhelming and incapacity urinary clutter occurs that if fits in different levels. Thus the Aged one has great impact in the domain of the restriction and social participation, compromising its quality of life. With the objective to identify the etiology of the IU in aged people of an institution of long permanence of the south of the state of MG, good with verifying the index of IU in relation to the sort and introduction it in the society through the incentive in its permanent activities, a study of the quanti-qualitative exploratory descriptive type was carried through. The population constituted of 50 patients with superior age the 60 years. The data had been gotten by survey of the handbook patient and later analyzed. It was possible to detect the problem in 20 people amongst 50 people, being caused global prevalence of 40% and integrating causes of medicine origin (45%), prostate riot (5%) and alterations of the pelvic wooden floor (50%). Although the gotten data disclose one high index of IU, they seem enough to promote the awareness for the adoption of excellent therapeutically conditions for the improvement of the quality of life and aged social integration enters the resident in institutions of long permanence for aged people.