TENA Total Care

How can nursing homes improve outcomes, increase efficiency and reduce costs? With TENA Total Care, we begin by discussing your current way of working and look at ways in which care can be improved and more value created. We then present a new way of working that uses specific TENA products, digital solutions and support to meet your residents' needs and optimise your resources. 95% of nursing homes show clear improvements with TENA Total Care.(1)

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How do you deliver more with less?

These are challenging times for care facilities. Care demands and staff workloads are increasing. Budgets and resources are becoming tighter, and pressure is mounting to cut costs and achieve greater value. This brings the biggest challenge of all: how do you deliver more with less?

The challenges care facilities are facing

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Challenges for residents

Without an accurate continence assessment, residents will be given the wrong product type with the wrong size and absorption level. This will have a negative effect on both physical and emotional wellbeing. As well as being uncomfortable, this will cause leakages that can lead to incontinence-associated dermatitis, a loss of dignity, sleep deprivation and social withdrawal.

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Challenges for caregivers

Having to change residents according to a fixed schedule, instead of the results of an accurate continence assessment, will increase workloads and lower the standard of care. Not knowing the best time to check, change or toilet residents will lead to frequent unnecessary checks and changes. This will reduce efficiency, lower job satisfaction and increase the chance of stress and sick days.

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Challenges for care facilities

Not meeting the challenges residents and caregivers are facing will create challenges for your care facility. The wrong absorbent products and inefficient care routines will lead to more laundry, more waste and costly skin health treatment. It will also lead to more staff time being used on changing products and bedding. More laundry also means higher utility costs and more energy use.

30%

30% of residents with wrong product fit risk skin health issues (2)

43%

43% of caregivers are unsatisfied with their work environment (3)

87%

87% of care facilities are facing financial challenges (2)

TENA Total Care — For more efficient care and greater value

Our complete range of continence care solutions – professionally selected to meet your needs

· Total support: TENA tools, education, training and support

· Total confidence: TENA skin care products

· Total insights: TENA SmartCare digital solutions

· Total performance: TENA absorbent hygiene products

Use better, use less everywhere

With TENA Total Care, we discuss the level of care you currently provide at every stage of the continence care pathway. We then present a new way of working that uses specific TENA products, digital solutions and support to meet your residents' unique needs and optimise your resources - from assessment to outcomes.

Using better quality products and implementing better care routines will help ensure that your care facility uses fewer products, uses less time on changes and laundry, creates less waste and uses less of your budget. But most importantly, you will provide better care for your residents and a more efficient working environment for your staff. TENA Total Care – Use better, use less everywhere.

See how we assess each resident into one of six Care Needs Profiles

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Care Needs Profile 1

1- Active & Independent residents

Active and independent with no support needed.

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Care Needs Profile 2

2 - Independent residents with same impairment

Starting to experience some mobility and/ or cognitive impairment, but most of the time they manage themselves and might occasionally need support.

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Care Needs Profile 3

3 - Residents with increased mobility impairment

Has increased mobility impairment and may experience difficulties with dressing and therefore needs the support of one carer.

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Care Needs Profile 4

4 - Residents with significant cognitive confusion

Experiences significant confusion. Might have mobility issues but is still weight--bearing, therefore always needs support from maximum one carer.

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Care Needs Profile 5

5 - Residents with significant mobility impairment

Has significant mobility impairment. Is still weight-bearing but needs support from an active mechanical lift and one (1) carer to make transfers.

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Care Needs Profile 6

6 - Immobile and passive residents

Is passive and mostly confined to bed or a wheelchair. No mobility or weight-bearing ability, needs support from a passive lift with two carers to help make transfers.

How TENA Total Care optimises the continence care pathway

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1. Assesment – for accurate continence assessments

TENA Care Needs Profiles
TENA Bladder Diary
TENA Continence Assessment
TENA Skin Health Assessment, IAD Prevention and Treatment Guide

TENA SmartCare Identifi™

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2. Care plan – for person-centred care plans

TENA Continence Care Plan 

TENA Product Selector Guides 

TENA Best Practice Continence Care 

TENA Best Practice Personal Hygiene 

TENA Best Practice Bowel Management

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3. Care delivery – for effective delivery of care

TENA Fitting Instruction Videos
TENA Care Cards
TENA ProSkin Absorbent and Skin Care Products
TENA SmartCare Change Indicator™
TENA Education, Training & Support

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4. Evaluation – for reviewing and evaluating care

TENA Review and Follow-Up Report

Turn care challenges into positive outcomes

35%

35% reduction in waste (6)

70%

70% of staff agree TENA Total Care routines create a better working environment (4)

15%

15% reduction in carbon footprint with TENA SmartCare Identifi™ (7)

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How can TENA Total Care benefit you?

95% of care facilities show clear improvements with TENA Total Care.(1) Let’s talk about how TENA Total Care can benefit you.

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Further reading on how to create more value

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Use better. Use less.

Value is more than unit prices. It’s about efficiency and maximising time and resources to offer the best possible care. It's an approach that benefits residents, caregivers and care facilities. We call it Use better. Use less.

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Essity’s Richard Maddison was one of experts behind a joint Essity and NHS study into the positive effects of choosing products based on individual needs rather than cost

The value of person-centred care

An 8-week study carried out by Essity and the NHS proved that a person-centred care approach can reduce product consumption by 35% while the NHS could save a staggering £500 million per year. Read about the study here.

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TENA Cost Efficiencies paper

Lower costs and greater efficiency can help care facilities focus on the human side of continence care. TENA can help your care facility achieve greater efficiency. Download our cost efficiencies paper here.
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References:

1. Essity data on file: All statistics are based on average percentages from between 85-181 TENA Solutions case studies around the world, mainly Europe but also USA, Canada and China. Results vary across countries and care homes. 2011-13

2. A. Wagg, Continence in nursing homes: a state of irreversible decline?, 2019

3. A study from News Medical Life Sciences, “Study shows higher health care costs and worse outcomes for incontinent patients”, 2021

4. Essity data on file (staff questionnaires): All statistics are based on results from between 85-92 TENA Solutions case studies involving 936-1020 respondents (depending on question) around the world, mainly Europe but also USA and Canada. Results vary across countries and care homes. 2012-14.

5. ARCTICC study on TENA SmartCare Identifi by University of Alberta, Canada, 2018 - data on file, submitted for peer reviewed publication

6. Data on file, 207 evaluations in 25 different Swedish municipalities, March 2017.

7. “Carbon footprint in use” includes the carbon footprint of both the absorbent products and laundry due to leakages, in delivering Toileting & Containment Care. Result is based on a clinical trial (data on file) and a Life Cycle Assessment performed by Essity and third-party reviewed, showing a 15% reduction. Assumptions on day- and nighttime leakage, resulting in different laundry volumes, were based on internal Essity data on file. Absorbent product environmental impact was based on raw material acquisition, production, transport and waste handling.