Leverage the potential of digital continence care AUTHOR Dag Winther Svendsen, Global Concept Manager, ABENA Nova Continence care is an essential part of the daily care practices in nursing homes and specialty care institutions. At a time with an increasing number of elderly people and a decreasing number of caregivers, we have to ask ourselves how we can maintain and improve the standards of continence care. Digitalization is one of the answers. While the trend of using digital solutions in our daily lives is snowballing, it is also gaining momentum in the care sector. Digital continence care is emerging as one of the areas with vast potential for residents, caregivers and institution management in terms of improved quality of life for residents, improved working conditions for caregivers, and savings on cost. carry out the best solution in their daily work in caring for the resident. In addition, the digital products open new perspectives and pave the way for important discussions among the staff on good continence care. This may ultimately lead to continuous improvements and improved work satisfaction. This paper explores the opportunities, challenges and potentials of digital continence care from a management point of view, based on the experiences from several European nursing homes and specialty care institutions that have tested the digital incontinence solution ABENA Nova with MediSens. The added value of digital continence care Digital continence care supports a personalized approach, putting the individual resident center-stage and offering new opportunities to improve quality of life. However, transformation requires changing habits and mindsets in continence care. The impact of digital continence care is profound and has the potential bring about lasting, positive changes to daily practices, staff satisfaction, and happiness among residents and their relatives. The real-time data provided by the products allows timely action in continence care. In addition, the automatic capture of data related to the individual resident may lead to changes of routines and improved planning of the continence care. Digital continence care empowers the staff to act on real-time information. Fixed changing schedules can be replaced by a personal, ‘on-demand’ approach to continence care. The responsibility is handed back to the staff performing the actual care, allowing them to make and Unique results have been demonstrated through case studies* 39 minutes saved time per user/day 57% reduction in leakages 84% reduction in manual checks 28% reduction in number of changes *The digital incontinence product ABENA Nova with MediSens has been tested at nursing homes and specialty care institutions in the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Norway, Sweden, USA, and Denmark. The figures above are average results from these case studies. Average results from case studies, Europe 2018-19 2020 2 of 4 Management
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