TENA Total Care

With TENA Total Care, we review your current way of working and identify areas where care can be improved, efficiency increased and budget saved.

We then use our expertise to create a unique combination of products, digital solutions and support that meets your specific needs and creates the greatest value.

95% of care facilities 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?

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The challenges care facilities are facing

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Challenges for residents

Without an accurate continence assessment, residents may be given the wrong product type with the wrong size and absorption level. This may have a negative effect on both physical and emotional wellbeing. As well as being uncomfortable, this may 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, may increase workloads and lower the standard of care. Not knowing the best time to check, change or toilet residents may lead to frequent unnecessary checks and changes. This may 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 may create challenges for your care facility. The wrong absorbent products and inefficient care routines may lead to more laundry, more waste and costly skin health treatment. It may also lead to more staff time being used on changing products and bedding. More laundry also means higher utility costs and more energy use.

TENA Total Care — From better care to greater efficiencies

Use better, use less everywhere

With TENA Total Care, we review the level of care you currently provide at every stage of the continence care pathway. We then use our expertise to create a unique combination of high-quality absorbent and skin health products, digital solutions and professional support to meet your specific needs—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.

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 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

Residents using the change indicator during 2 month

51%

Reduction in Time Spent on Continence care***

54%

Reduction in Night checks***

46%

Reduction in Product Changes***

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References:

  1. Essity data on file: Based on average percentages reported by care homes who implemented the TTC approach, mainly in Europe but also in US, Canada, and China. Results were reported from 85-181 (depending on question) care homes in 2011-13 and varied across countries and care homes.
  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.