Dutch nursing homes wins award for implementation 

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.”