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Mother is incontinent. I purchased booster pads to augment absorbency of her disposable briefs. But the caregiver staff where she lives asked me to purchase the waterproof backed Poise pads instead. I don’t understand how this will be helpful and we can’t afford to waste money. What has worked for you?

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You are correct in that the waterproof backed pads will not help much in this case.
What they are asking to be done is not acceptable. It is called "double brief" and it is a LAZY way to care for people. They should have her and everyone else on a bathroom schedule. Every 2 hours a trip to the bathroom. The brief gets checked and changed if necessary.
It might be possible that a Tab brief would be easier for the staff to change rather than a pull up type brief. The pull up type brief the pants need to be removed, this often means having to remove shoes as well, where the tab type you can pull the pants down a bit, remove the tab brief and put another on while the person is standing then pull the pants back up. I could do a change in under 1 minute start to finish.
If they insist on a liner then get the type that is not waterproof backed but I would not give in on the double brief.
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Bella I'm surprised you haven't had more responses. You can search the site for "best adult diaper" and you will get lots of different opinions, in general molicare, prevail, abena, attends are high on the list. Luckily we didn't have a big problem with this, my mom used tena overnights. I also had several washable mattress pads I picked up from the local drug store (they were fairly inexpensive at under $20 each), the underpads were also handy to help with repositioning.
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This is something that I've repeatedly seen recommended so I actually did a survey about it here on the forum. The consensus is that NO it doesn't work, because as you suspected the waterproof backing prevents any overflow from reaching the briefs until it runs off the sides (and down the legs in my experience). The only exception would be if the caregivers take the time to slash through the backing, then it would act more like a booster pad.
There are better brands of briefs that are more absorbent but of course they are usually pricier, some of the adult incontinence suppliers will send you samples to try.
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Bella7 Feb 2020
Can you advise on the best brand I can get my mom?
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