Simi Valley Hospital and the Simi Valley Senior Center will offer a series of community lectures in the next few months with a focus on senior health.
The next lecture will be on "Urinary Incontinence and What You Can Do About It." It's scheduled for Monday, Nov. 5, from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Education Conference Room at the Simi Valley Senior Center, located at 3900 Avenida Simi, Simi Valley.
This lecture is for women only.
Dr.
Lawrence Lin, a medical expert on staff at Simi Valley Hospital, will discuss urinary incontinence with an emphasis on diagnosis and treatment options for women.
A question-and-answer session will follow Dr. Lin's lecture.
Common symptoms of urinary incontinence are inability to urinate, pain related to filling the bladder and/or pain related to urination without a proven bladder infection, progressive weakness of the urinary stream with or without a feeling of incomplete bladder emptying.
Another symptom ishaving to run to the restroom and losing urine if you do not make it in time.
For more information, call the Simi Valley Senior Center at (805) 583-6363.
A future lecture will be held on from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 7, on "Hip & Knee Replacement/When, How and Why."