ABENA showcases

Thursday, October 3 2019

ABENA will participate as part of the business delegation to France accompanied by the Danish Crown Prince Couple on October 6-8, 2019. The goal is to strengthen the close ties between the French market and ABENA’s innovative health care solutions.

ABENA’s delegation will focus on innovative and digital health care solutions, including presenting ABENA Nova with MediSens. 

ABENA Nova, the world’s first digital incontinence aid for everyday use, is currently being introduced to the French market through a series of trials in French nursing homes. 

Innovative solutions for a more sustainable tomorrow 

Our needs as individuals and health care providers are changing. The health–care sector faces challenges of multi-resistant bacteria and a growing population over the age of 80.  With more than 50 years of experience in health care, ABENA has seen this change first-hand. It is more important than ever to keep our focus on the needs of tomorrow’s essential health–care needs and to continually challenge the way we approach innovation in health care. 

For press and media inquiries, please contact:

Eva Sand

Digital Director
Egelund 35
6200 Aabenraa, Denmark

ABENA wins

Wednesday, June 12 2019

ABENA wins European Care Award ‘Kate Granger Award for Compassionate Care’ for the intelligent continence solution ABENA Nova. 

European award for the care of tomorrow 

Aabenraa, Denmark – ABENA received this European award for the digital continence solution ‘ABENA Nova with MediSens’, with which it also won the National Innovation Award last year. 

ABENA was nominated for the Kate Granger Award by the manager of the health-care institution Evean Oostergouw. The institution implemented ABENA Nova in one of its nursing homes in 2018 and here, the number of wet beds decreased by 76% due to the intelligent continence solution. At the same time, the implementation resulted in a 30% reduction in work pressure. Thus, the average number of changes went down from 3.5 to 2.4 per resident per day.  

ABENA Nova contributes to a solution for the staff shortages in health care – one of the biggest problems of this time. Moreover, a 20% cost saving was measured on continence care, as well as a time saving of 28 %. Due to these results, Evean Oostergouw was proclaimed ‘Career Innovator 2019’ by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Netherlands in January. 

Great impact on people’s well-being 

“The use of ABENA Nova has a great impact on the well-being of residents in nursing homes and other institutions”, explains CEO of the ABENA Group, Preben Terp-Nielsen: “By avoiding wet clothing and wet beds, the intelligent continence solution ensures that people experience less discomfort and shame. And this goes hand-in-hand with our mission: to improve quality of life for people living with incontinence.”

For press and media inquiries, please contact:

Eva Sand

Digital Director
Egelund 35
6200 Aabenraa, Denmark

Implementing ABENA Nova

Wednesday, January 23 2019

The Dutch nursing homes Evean and Philadelphia Care have been named winners of the Dutch ‘Nursing homes of the future’ challenge. 

Dutch nursing homes Evean and Philadelphia Care have been named winners of the Dutch ‘Nursing homes of the future’ challenge as a part of ‘Care Innovator 2019’. 

This was announced Monday by Dutch Secretary-General Erik Gerritsen of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport during the Healthcare & E-Health conference in The Hague, Netherlands. 

The award was given by an independent jury based on the results of the successful implementation of the intelligent continence aid ‘ABENA Nova with MediSens’ at Evean Oostergouw nursing home in Zaandam, NL. For the project, Evean had partnered with Philadelphia Care, another nursing home in the Netherlands which has already successfully implemented ABENA Nova with MediSens.

Test results: fewer wet beds, decreased workload*

A total of 12 residents participated in the Evean Oostergouw challenge. During the test period with the intelligent continence aid, the number of wet beds at Evean decreased by 76%. It also led to a reduction of the overall workload. The average number of  product changes went from 3.5  to 2.4 per resident per day; a decrease of 30%. 

According to Nicole Bring, Employee Care and Quality of Evean, these changes have a major impact on quality of life for both residents and employees, “Residents no longer need to lie in a wet and cold bed, and now experience less shame and unrest. Employees have less work changing clothes and bedding. This not only saves time, but is also a relief in terms of physical strain.”

Collaboration with partner for successful implementation 

Throughout the implementation, Evean paid a lot of attention to the challenge of cultural change. 

“At first glance, an intelligent continence aid may not be too complex an innovation to implement, while the benefits are obvious. But you are asking employees to start working in a new way. A person-centered approach replaces fixed product changes and existing routines. That is why we have involved employees intensively in the entire process, and looked at how we could best facilitate each team.” 

In the ‘Nursing homes of the future’ challenge, the focus was not just on implementing the technological innovation, but on being able to integrate the innovation into the daily work of the staff. In order to successfully do this, each participant in the challenge was expected to form a partnership with an organization who had already successfully implemented the technology. 

For Evean, that partner was Philadephia Zorg: “Philadelphia put us in contact with ABENA and supported us throughout the entire process,” explains Nicole Brink. “We have been grateful for the experience and advice from Philadelphia. For example, that we must pay constant attention to the teams working on the floor, so that the employees can quickly and easily ask for help and be encouraged in the work.” 

ABENA Nova is the first and leading digital continence solution providing real-time and actionable data for timely and personalized continence care. ABENA Nova is comprised of the following elements: 

• Premium quality incontinence product with integrated sensors 
• Personal clip that logs and sends data
• User-friendly app and data storage

For press and media inquiries, please contact:

Eva Sand

Digital Director
Egelund 35
6200 Aabenraa, Denmark

ABENA Partner

Friday, June 22 2018

Our partners from MediSens Wireless, developer of the sensor technology behind ABENA Nova with MediSens, have been selected as a Red Herring Top 100 North America Winner. 

MediSens Wireless announced today it was one of  the winners of the 2018 Red Herring Top 100 – North America. This is an award that celebrates the most promising and exciting startup companies in North America based on innovative technology, growth, entrepreneurship, and disruptive impact. 

“We are very proud of our partnership with MediSens and for being able to produce innovative continence products in cooperation with one of the world’s most innovative technology companies. This recognition is great motivation for the future development of ABENA Nova with MediSens,” 
Dag Winther Svendsen, Global Concept Manager for ABENA Nova with MediSens, commented after the award ceremony. 

MediSens Wireless, founded in 2007, has developed the wearable sensor technology behind ABENA Nova with MediSens, the world’s first continence product for everyday use, and has an ambition of improving the quality of life for people living with incontinence. 

Red Herring Top 100 North America is an annual list of outstanding startups and promising companies. This year, the winners were selected based on a review of applications from 1200 companies. 

The winners of the 2018 edition of the Red Herring 100 North America award were selected based on a number of criteria, including technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. 

More information

ABENA was founded in 1953.

The company is a family-owned Danish production and commerce company based in Aabenraa in Denmark. 

The Group is represented by subsidiaries in numerous countries, supplying more than 39,000 different products to over 90 countries worldwide. 

ABENA’s mission is to make life better for people with incontinence.

MediSens Wireless, Inc. was founded in 2007.

The mission of the company is to provide solutions to improve quality of life. The company’s goal is to develop a highly innovative technology platform and to offer meaningful care solutions to clients at home and extended care facilities. 

The company is based in Santa Clara, California (USA). 

A joint venture partnership based on shared goals.

For press and media inquiries, please contact:

Eva Sand

Digital Director
Egelund 35
6200 Aabenraa, Denmark

ABENA Nova

Friday, March 16 2018

ABENA Nova with MediSens was announced winner of the prestigious Dutch Healthcare Innovation Prize (Nationale Zorginnovatieprijs) from among 136 innovations. 

The National Healthcare Innovation Award rewards the most innovative company in the Healthcare and Welfare Sector. This year, the award ceremony was held during the plenary closing program of Health Valley Event in Nijmegen. 

ABENA Nova with MediSens is the world’s first truly intelligent continence solution for everyday use. It provides insights to support caregivers in nursing and residential homes whilst giving a personalized approach to continence care that also encourages best practice. 

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With ABENA Nova, caregivers are provided with real-time actionable data that help them time every-day care activities to the individual resident. Incontinence products are changed exactly when they need to be changed. 

The result is caregivers who are able to learn more about a resident’s behavior over time, and empowering them to improve general procedures based on actionable insights. 

Lastly, the many sensors in the incontinence product registers every detail about where in the product the urine is detected and how it spreads in the incontinence product. This is information the manufacturer can use to develop and optimize the incontinence products.

For press and media inquiries, please contact:

Eva Sand

Digital Director
Egelund 35
6200 Aabenraa, Denmark